dart_frog VS ktor

Compare dart_frog vs ktor and see what are their differences.

dart_frog

A fast, minimalistic backend framework for Dart 🎯 (by VeryGoodOpenSource)

ktor

Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort (by ktorio)
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dart_frog ktor
18 48
1,718 12,135
2.9% 1.6%
9.6 9.5
about 8 hours ago 7 days ago
Dart Kotlin
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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dart_frog

Posts with mentions or reviews of dart_frog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
  • Dart on the Server: Exploring Server-Side Dart Technologies in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    DartFrog
  • Dart Fastest Growing Language in 2023
    3 projects | /r/dartlang | 6 Dec 2023
    Dart is still mostly for Flutter, but we're seeing it move into the server side as well with projects like Serverpod and Dart Frog.
  • Dart Frog real world implementation
    2 projects | /r/dartlang | 16 Dec 2022
    Has anyone used Dart Frog in a real world application? Is it viewed as production ready? Can you build a stand alone executable and deploy that directly or does it have to have a reverse proxy in front of it .(I'm thinking Nginx). I'm trying to build my own API for a Flutter application and while I'd like to do everything in one language, Go looks like the better option for the API since ease of deployment is important to me. I want non-technical people to be able to deploy this and having a single application that can be deployed without a reverse proxy is really attractive in that area but then I found Dart Frog so I'm willing to give it a shot if it can do what I need.
    2 projects | /r/dartlang | 16 Dec 2022
    We’re working on multipart form data support (https://github.com/VeryGoodOpenSource/dart_frog/issues/296) but in the meantime you can use https://pub.dev/packages/shelf_multipart.
  • What Backend would you recommend.
    2 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 14 Dec 2022
    There's also Dart Frog if you want to keep everything in Dart, but i do not have experience with it so can't recommend either way.
  • Dart in backend??
    2 projects | /r/dartlang | 1 Dec 2022
    Dart Frog: https://dartfrog.vgv.dev/
  • Serverside Dart
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2022
    dart_frog doesn't support it yet, you can track the progress at dart_frog#296.
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2022
    In this blog, I will talk about the benchmarks of Flask (Python), Express (JavaScript), Shelf (Dart), dart_frog (Dart) and Conduit (Dart), and my opinions on Dart on the server side.
  • Ask HN: What is the future of Swift on the server-side?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2022
    Dart has some backend projects and support and is statically typed.

    See Very Good Ventures own Dart Frog:

    https://github.com/VeryGoodOpenSource/dart_frog

  • Ask HN: Why isn't Dart more popular?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    I’ve been using Dart/Flutter for over a year now building an open source iOS/Android/Web app. In general, Dart is a solid language, and we enjoy writing code in it. The package management, for example is comparable to other best in class managers, like Rust’s Cargo and a huge leap forward from languages like Python. All the tooling (linting, formatter) takes the lessons Google learned from Go and applies them to Dart.

    Additionally, It’s both an interpreted (with JIT) and a compiled language. Flutter uses this to hot reload code in development, but also to ship a leaner binary in production. On the server, native binaries are great for CLI tools for easy deployment, and the JIT is great for servers where processes are longer running and performance is more important than process size. Although it’s reasonably fast either way.

    That being said, it’s a pretty boring language. It doesn’t have many expressive features to reduce boilerplate. While it does have reflection, no one uses it because it can’t be used in Flutter when compiling native binaries. Very few people are willing to make packages that don’t work in Flutter. People generally resort to code gen, which is clunky and adds another process to development.

    On the server, there are not many options. The ‘shelf’ package is the default, but it falls short in many areas, making developers cobble together different packages. There are others, the one I’m watching is Frog[0], but adoption is slow. However, it is pretty much just another Next.js style clone, not adding anything novel to the space.

    My hope is that the cloud providers will roll out native Dart support to their FaaS products, so I can at least share my model code between apps and the backend. However, the dream (well, my dream at least) is to have a full end-to-end Dart/Flutter solution that is real-time/reactive and not REST-based. Something like a programmable Firebase where I don’t have to deal with un/marshalling data myself all the time. I think that will get Flutter devs enough reason to move to Dart on the backend.

    [0] https://dartfrog.vgv.dev/

ktor

Posts with mentions or reviews of ktor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dart_frog and ktor you can also consider the following projects:

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin

spring-native - Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

vaadin-on-kotlin - Writing full-stack statically-typed web apps on JVM at its simplest

apollo-android - :robot:  A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for the JVM, Android, and Kotlin multiplatform.

hexagon - Hexagon is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications or APIs) that run inside a cloud platform.

Armeria - Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

spark-kotlin - A Spark DSL in idiomatic kotlin // dependency: com.sparkjava:spark-kotlin:1.0.0-alpha

kovert - The invisible REST and web framework