hexagon VS RestExpress

Compare hexagon vs RestExpress 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)

RestExpress

Minimalist Java framework for rapidly creating scalable, containerless, RESTful microservices. Ship a production-quality, headless, RESTful API in the shortest time possible. Uses Netty for HTTP, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics, properties files for configuration. Sub-projects and plugins enable, NoSQL, Swagger, Auth0, HAL integration, etc. (by RestExpress)
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hexagon RestExpress
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548 938
0.7% 0.2%
9.5 4.4
5 days ago 2 months ago
Kotlin Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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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.

RestExpress

Posts with mentions or reviews of RestExpress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning RestExpress yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

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

Dropwizard - A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

kotlin - Starter project for Kotlin

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

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.

Spark - A simple expressive web framework for java. Spark has a kotlin DSL https://github.com/perwendel/spark-kotlin

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

Microserver - Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.

graphql-kotlin-toolkit - GraphQL toolkit for Kotlin.

Crnk - JSON API library for Java