Grails
The Grails Web Application Framework (by grails)
Ratpack
Lean & powerful HTTP apps (by ratpack)
Grails | Ratpack | |
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10 | 4 | |
2,762 | 1,934 | |
0.3% | -0.1% | |
9.5 | 8.1 | |
6 days ago | 12 days ago | |
HTML | Java | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
Grails
Posts with mentions or reviews of Grails.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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Grails VS prime-mvc - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 May 2023
- Grails 5.3.0 Release
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RIFE2 web framework under development
And frameworks like Grails build conventions and helpers on top of Spring.
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Web app in Java with Template Engine
I don't have any direct experience and am only suggesting it because you mentioned RoR...But Grails (https://grails.org/) is basically the JVM version of RoR (Groovy on Rails -> Grails).
- Interview Question: What are your favorite Spring Boot libraries?
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Libraries other than Spring Boot for creating web APIs
Grails - Spring under the hood. Much less boilerplate. Opinionated, which helps keep things consistent. Uses Spring-Security plugin for authentication.
- Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab
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"get-it-done" MVC web framework like Django in Java?
Also, Grails, which a Rails like framework build on Groovy, a JVM scripting language.
- A linguagem de programação Groovy - Radar da itexto
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How to Build Java Applications Today: April 5, 2021
Any JVM language to the rescue here? There’s one, but it’s not the one you’re thinking about. In a sign that this index may not accurately reflect our project reality, Groovy saw a meteoric rise of 0.86% to 1.04% last year! That was good for place 17. Yep, Groovy! Are people writing Gradle plugins in Groovy? Or is Grails having a resurgence? I’m as baffled as you are.
Ratpack
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ratpack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
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Rife Is a Framework Experiment
There are a huge set of web frameworks in Java that have the same example as shown on this site; I have no idea how this differs from, say, https://ratpack.io or https://sparkjava.com. This really needs some key features on the site to sell it.
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ratpack: a simpleton's HTTP framework
Ratpack is also the name of a Java web framework - https://ratpack.io
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria
- A linguagem de programação Groovy - Radar da itexto
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Grails and Ratpack you can also consider the following projects:
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
PrimeFaces - Ultimate Component Suite for JavaServer Faces
Vaadin - Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
Ninja - Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. Rock solid, fast and super productive.
Spring - Spring Framework
Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox
Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket - Component-based Java web framework
Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin