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hattery | Vert.x | |
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17 | 14,065 | |
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6.8 | 9.5 | |
4 months ago | 4 days ago | |
Java | Java | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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
Vert.x
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Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin
https://vertx.io/
It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
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Reactive database access on the JVM
Hibernate Reactive integrates with Vert.x, but an extension allows to bridge to Project Reactor if wanted
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Looking for a coroutine-based message broker implementation for inter-app communication.
Have you looked at Vert.x?
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What's the state of server-side frameworks with Kotlin support today for small teams?
Explicitly so:
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Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
I really like Eclipse Vert.x... As both an Erlang dev and Java dev, it's a great synergy and soon to have support for Virtual Threads similar to BEAM.
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Go doesn’t do any magical stuff and I love that
There are many lean, popular, non-magical libraries in Java land. (https://quarkus.io/, https://vertx.io/, etc). Spring is a monster 😱. Its like comparing Kubernetes (written in Go) with some lean framework in another lang.
- PFA vs SRL
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Favorite hidden gem library?
Eclipse Vert.x - Add amazing Async to any Java stack
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Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe
Vert.X example: https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/blob/master/src/main/java/examples/EventBusExamples.java#L106 (couldn't even find docs)
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Quarkus fundamentals
In fact, it builds on top of proven standards such as Eclipse MicroProfile or frameworks such as Vert.x or JAX‑RS.
What are some alternatives?
prime-mvc - Prime MVC is a high performance Model View Controller framework built in Java.
Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM
ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
Arthur - How to build your own AI art installation from scratch [Moved to: https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art]
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
reactor-core - Non-Blocking Reactive Foundation for the JVM
Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework
gwizard - A modular toolkit for building web services with Guice, inspired by DropWizard
RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java
helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices