Doodle VS hexagon

Compare Doodle vs hexagon and see what are their differences.

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. (by hexagontk)
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Doodle hexagon
58 4
600 548
5.5% 0.7%
8.9 9.5
about 1 month ago 4 days ago
Kotlin Kotlin
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Doodle

Posts with mentions or reviews of Doodle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
  • Doodle: Pure Kotlin UI Framework for the Web and Desktop
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
  • Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
    https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/08/compose-multiplatf...

    They don't really mention Wasm there as this mostly focuses on the IOS support. They had a lot of presentations about that at kotlin conf and the compose web channel in the kotlin slack is very active.

    Basically, anyone currently doing mobile development that is used to modern UI frameworks for that, will soon be able to target browsers effortlessly without compromising on their UI frameworks. Compose is one of the frameworks. But there are others. I've seen some nice kotlin-js frameworks targeting canvas and vector graphics. Doodle is a nice example: https://nacular.github.io/doodle/. I have not used that yet but it looks quite slick. A lot of kotlin-js stuff will transition to wasm once the compiler stabilizes.

    Web developers seem to be mostly unable to see beyond their comfort zone of DOM/CSS/JS. There are alternative ways of doing UI/UX that are common outside of browsers. Applying that in a browser is transitioning from impossible (a few years ago) to being hard but very feasible (the last few years) to being easy, very common, and widely supported across different developer ecosystems (the next few years). Not a matter of if but when.

  • Complex Menus Made Easy with Doodle 0.9.2
    2 projects | /r/coolgithubprojects | 26 May 2023
    Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web (and Desktop), that lets you create rich applications without relying on Javascript, HTML or CSS. Check out the documentation and tutorials to learn more.
  • On the Compose HTML rebranding (TL;DR - everything is fine!)
    8 projects | /r/Kotlin | 15 Apr 2023
    Doodle - A pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web (and Desktop).
  • Doodle 0.9.1 makes it easy to add popups and modals to your app
    1 project | /r/opensource | 7 Apr 2023
    1 project | /r/javascript | 7 Apr 2023
    1 project | /r/coding | 7 Apr 2023
  • Doodle 0.9.0 Released
    1 project | /r/Frontend | 4 Jan 2023
    1 project | /r/coding | 4 Jan 2023
  • Animations with Doodle 0.9.0
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 4 Jan 2023
    Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web (and Desktop), that lets you create rich applications without relying on Javascript, HTML or CSS. Check out the documentation and tutorials to learn more.

hexagon

Posts with mentions or reviews of hexagon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
  • Hexagon 1.4.0 released!!! 🎉
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2021
    Hexagon is a Microservices Toolkit that aims to provide all you need to develop applications that run on Cloud environments.
  • Easier non-blocking approach for a from-scratch server?
    1 project | /r/Kotlin | 6 Jan 2021
    Ktor is a project that's not primarily focused on application performance but developer performance. It seems to be sth different than what you want to achieve. I don't think a lot frameworks... or any other framework writes its own low level io stuff from scratch, they mostly use https://netty.io/ because there's not too much room for improvement and it's complete, battle tested and so on. I lately came across https://github.com/hexagonkt/hexagon which seems to have a very solid code base based on modules modules modules, is kotlin first and they have an adapter for netty. The usage of the naked http server seems to be as easy as it can be https://hexagonkt.com/port_http_server/port_http_server/ and they are even listed on techempower benchmarks https://github.com/hexagonkt/hexagon/ .
  • Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
    67 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    https://github.com/hexagonkt/hexagon A microservices toolkit written in Kotlin.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Doodle and hexagon you can also consider the following projects:

kvision - Object oriented web framework for Kotlin/JS

ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort

kottpd - REST framework written in pure Kotlin

yested - A Kotlin framework for building web applications in Javascript.

kotlin - Starter project for Kotlin

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

skrape.it - A Kotlin-based testing/scraping/parsing library providing the ability to analyze and extract data from HTML (server & client-side rendered). It places particular emphasis on ease of use and a high level of readability by providing an intuitive DSL. It aims to be a testing lib, but can also be used to scrape websites in a convenient fashion.

fritz2 - Easily build reactive web-apps in Kotlin based on flows and coroutines.

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

graphql-kotlin-toolkit - GraphQL toolkit for Kotlin.