cowboy VS gun

Compare cowboy vs gun and see what are their differences.

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cowboy gun
10 1
7,162 884
0.5% 1.1%
8.3 5.5
10 days ago 26 days ago
Erlang Erlang
ISC License ISC License
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cowboy

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowboy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-03.

gun

Posts with mentions or reviews of gun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.
  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cowboy and gun you can also consider the following projects:

bandit - Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications

http_proxy - http proxy with Elixir. wait request with multi port and forward to each URIs

elli - Simple, robust and performant Erlang web server

mint - Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 🌱

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

lhttpc - What used to be here -- this is a backwards-compat user and repo m(

plug_cowboy - Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server

finch - Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance

heroku-buildpack-nodejs - Heroku's buildpack for Node.js applications.

HttpCanary - A powerful capture and injection tool for the Android platform

mochiweb - MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Crawly - Crawly, a high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.