NGINX Unit
NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile open-source web app server that has three core capabilities. It is a HTTP reverse proxy, a web server for static media assets, and an application server that can natively execute application code in seven different languages. (by nginx)
API Platform
Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time. (by api-platform)
| NGINX Unit | API Platform | |
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| 16 | 51 | |
| 5,099 | 8,297 | |
| 0.6% | 0.4% | |
| 9.5 | 8.2 | |
| 1 day ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | TypeScript | |
| Apache 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NGINX Unit
Posts with mentions or reviews of NGINX Unit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.
- Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework
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Performance benchmark of PHP runtimes
Nginx Unit application server.
- Nginx Unit: Universal Web App Server
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Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
This is great to read! Thanks for all the great input!
I check the comments next week and make sure to address the issues / ideas mentioned. If you don’t mind feel free to drop a comment here as well with your ideas / needs. https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/945
I will work on a compression between Nginx and Unit to close this gap in our documentation.
- Universal Web App Server
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h5ai gallery alternative for nginx
You could try running h5ai with NGINX UNIT.
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Which reverse proxy are you using?
nginx, but nginx-unit looks very interesting. I might switch a few docker containers to use it before trying to use it natively.
- Universal Web App Server – Nginx Unit
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Nginx front / Nginx Unit-PHP Back
unix:/filesocketheadache (problems) verses unix:@abstractsocketmagic (problem solved)
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Easy to use docker-container for your applications
Try Nginx Unit to get away from the php-fpm complexity. It runs on http by default so it's super easy to spin up and access by itself (no need for an extra http server) or behind another http gateway as a simple proxy.
API Platform
Posts with mentions or reviews of API Platform.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-27.
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Lucky like a 7 — Seven SymfonyCasts Courses to Master Symfony 7
Technically API Platform is not part of Symfony. Although, they are both French. 😉
- Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
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Shot in the dark
Probably API-platform. The website is down at the moment, but: https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform It's Symfony based (and plays nice in that ecosystem), also allows you to describe entities via Schema org vocab, has a client generator, and comes with docker-compose and helm charts. I've used it extensively to build various headless services. It's really easy to expose annotated Doctrine entities.
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API Platform up and running in 5 minutes 🚀
API Platform is a framework for API-first projects, built on top of Symfony components. Let's see how to create a minimal and lightweight starter project in just 5 minutes!
- API Platform (the PHP framework for creating REST and GraphQL APIs) has a brand new website!
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Is that the way to create an API? 😣 yes, I hate PHP
Just use a nice framework like Symfony and for an API there is a nice thing called API Platform
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Questions about getting started with PHP
On the Symfony side, a headless API can be built really quickly with https://api-platform.com/. You describe your domain entities with Schema.org vocabulary, can use a client generator to hammer out a UI in Next, Nuxt, Quasar, or whatever as a starter, it comes with an admin backend, and a Helm chart to deploy on Kubernetes. Works great for APIs when paired with, say Nuxt SSGs/PWAs if you want more of a JAMstack approach.
- Easiest way to build and maintain a api-first project in php or another Programming Langauge These days?
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What is the best way to write a dedicated server?
It could be implemented with STOMP, or Mercure (goes well with API-Platform, written in PHP/Symfony), you could write your own with the help of nchan and scale it via Redis. If it's a web service, the best practices for operating and scaling are well established, Godot then just becomes another client.
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PSX - Build fully typed REST APIs
Why would someone use this over API Platform?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NGINX Unit and API Platform you can also consider the following projects:
uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄
Symfony DataTables Bundle - DataTables bundle for Symfony
Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
Apigility
Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
Fusio - Open source API management platform
Traefik-v2-examples - Traefik v2 guide by examples
PHP-CRUD-API - Single file PHP script that adds a REST API to a SQL database
filemanager - 📂 Web File Browser
Hateoas - A PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services.
snunit - Scala Native HTTP server based on NGINX Unit
Kong - 🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
NGINX Unit vs uvicorn
API Platform vs Symfony DataTables Bundle
NGINX Unit vs Caddy
API Platform vs Apigility
NGINX Unit vs Nginx Proxy Manager
API Platform vs Fusio
NGINX Unit vs Traefik-v2-examples
API Platform vs PHP-CRUD-API
NGINX Unit vs filemanager
API Platform vs Hateoas
NGINX Unit vs snunit
API Platform vs Kong