hexagon VS ktor

Compare hexagon vs ktor 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)

ktor

Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort (by ktorio)
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hexagon ktor
4 48
547 12,135
1.3% 1.6%
9.5 9.5
7 days ago 6 days ago
Kotlin Kotlin
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.

ktor

Posts with mentions or reviews of ktor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

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

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin

spring-native - Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

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

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

Armeria - Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

spark-kotlin - A Spark DSL in idiomatic kotlin // dependency: com.sparkjava:spark-kotlin:1.0.0-alpha

kovert - The invisible REST and web framework

GraphQL Kotlin - Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin