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hattery | Micronaut | |
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3 | 50 | |
17 | 5,950 | |
- | 0.5% | |
6.8 | 9.9 | |
4 months ago | 6 days ago | |
Java | Java | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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hattery
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Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
While I think there's a lot to love about Java, I think the standard library itself is not an especially great role model. Most of it was written a long time ago and has a fairly antiquated style - lots of mutable state, nullability, and checked exceptions. Not that the library isn't an incredible asset - it's luxuriously rich compared to working in Node.js - but if it were written from scratch today, I suspect it would look fairly different. Eg, the collection classes would use Optional and have separate read/write interfaces.
For an example of "modern Java" I would point at something like this (which I wrote, sorry about the hubris):
https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery
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Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?
I have been thinking of writing up a series of articles on this. Without going into too much detail:
* IDEA
* Deploy on Google App Engine, Digital Ocean App Platform, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, etc - get out of the ops business entirely.
* Guice as the backbone, no Spring/Boot. I wrote a tiny dropwiard-like "framework" to make this easier: https://github.com/gwizard/gwizard but there's a laughable amount of code here, you could build it all from scratch with minimal effort. This is about as lightweight as "frameworks" get because Guice does the heavy lifting.
* JAX-RS (Resteasy) for the web API. IMO this is the best part of Java web development. HTTP endpoints are simple synchronous Java methods (with a few annotations) and you can test them like simple Java methods.
* Lombok. Use @Value heavily. Cuts most of the boilerplate out of Java.
* Junit5 + AssertJ. (Or Google Truth, which is almost identical to AssertJ).
* Use functional patterns. Try to make all variables and fields final. Use collections streams heavily. Consider vavr.io (I'll admit I haven't it in anger yet, but I would in a new codebase).
* StreamEx. Adds a ton of useful stream behavior; I don't even use basic streams anymore.
* Guava. There's just a lot of useful stuff here.
* For the database, it really depends on what you're building. Most generic business apps, postgres/hibernate/guice-persist/flyway. Yeah, folks complain about hibernate a lot but it's a decent way to map to objects. Use SQL/native queries, don't bother with JPQL, criteria queries, etc.
* Hattery for making http requests (https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery). This is another one of mine. I make zillions of http requests, functional/immutable ergonomics really matter to me.
* Github actions for CI.
* Maven for the build. Yes, it's terrible, except for every other build system is worse. Gradle seems like it should be better but isn't. I'd really love some innovation here. Sigh.
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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I can't stand most http libraries (full of mutable state!) and I spend a lot of time making http calls. So I built a functional/immutable http request library which has been dramatically improving my personal quality of life for about 7 years now. No idea if anyone else uses it, but it doesn't really matter.
Java version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery
Typescript version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hatteryjs
Micronaut
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Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
Micronaut has a share of the space too.
https://micronaut.io/
However, you’re right that Spring Boot has the lions share of the Java ecosystem.
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Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin
I've used vert.x in a big project once. I don't ever want to do that again. Performance is pretty good, but the developer experience is beyond clunky.
My current favourite Java server framework is Micronaut.
Great performance and easy to develop for!
https://micronaut.io/
- Java 21 Released
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Java consumes 38x less energy than Python
I wonder how much you'd save with Micronaut: https://micronaut.io/
> Micronaut is a software framework for the Java virtual machine platform. It is designed to avoid reflection, thus reducing memory consumption and improving start times. Features which would typically be implemented at run-time are instead pre-computed at compile time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronaut_(framework)
I don't think you'd go down to 9, but something like 20-30 could be doable.
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mlfx FXML compiler
I'd like to introduce my project. It is called mlfx. It can compile FXML ahead of time. It is basically an annotation processor, which internally uses Micronaut framework's AST abstraction and compiles fxml files directly to JVM bytecode. This decreases UI load time and also helps with native-image reflection configs. It also has some compliance tests that load compiled code and check resulting object graph against one loaded by javafx-xml. It also has some drawbacks now, but, please, read README. Now I'm successfully using it in two production projects.
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What other programming languages/frameworks do you enjoy besides c#/dotnet?
https://micronaut.io/ https://quarkus.io/
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Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
when it comes to full stack frameworks, Micronaut(https://micronaut.io/) is actually good and pleasant to work with.
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Tech-stack for web application using Kotlin?
For the server Quarkus and Micronaut might be interesting besides Spring Boot. Quarkus is more popular and backed by RedHat (so probably here to stay).
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Top 5 Server-Side Frameworks for Kotlin in 2022: Micronaut
🥇 Spring Boot 🥈 Quarkus 🥉 Micronaut 🏅 Ktor 🏅 http4k
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Would love some guidance in how to get started with building web projects with Java.
Spring boot is still The King. Although I've not done more than hello world with Micronaut, it might have easier learning curve than Spring (and concepts are similar to Spring so you can carry over later to learn Spring). It could also be a useful skill in world of microservices these days.
What are some alternatives?
prime-mvc - Prime MVC is a high performance Model View Controller framework built in Java.
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
spring-native - Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support
Arthur - How to build your own AI art installation from scratch [Moved to: https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art]
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
reactor-core - Non-Blocking Reactive Foundation for the JVM
Flowable (V6) - A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users.
gwizard - A modular toolkit for building web services with Guice, inspired by DropWizard
Nacos - an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.
Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java
JaCoCo - :microscope: Java Code Coverage Library