http4k vs kottpd

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http4k		kottpd
	Project
5	Mentions	0
2,488	Stars	73
0.6%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Kotlin	Language	Kotlin
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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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.

http4k

Posts with mentions or reviews of http4k. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.

What's the state of server-side frameworks with Kotlin support today for small teams?
6 projects | /r/Kotlin | 17 Apr 2023

You named Express as an example for a good framework - I'd say both http4k and ktor come close to it. Spring Boot would really be on the other end and I met lots of JS/TS devs that didn't even want to touch it. I did have the same impression than you though: Documentation for ktor is not great at all.
Jackson, moshi or kotlinx.serialization?
8 projects | /r/Kotlin | 19 Oct 2022
Application-as-a-Function Thinking
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022

I couple of years ago I was lucky to use http4k, a server as a function web library for Kotlin. It was such a wonderful change compared to every other technologies available in both Java and Kotlin. It's simple.
Testing becomes so much easier too, as one can instantiate a the whole web routing aspect, without having to bind it to a port and having to send real http requests.
If strongly suggest people to take a look at it. It's not perfect, but it's a lot simpler than other frameworks and libraries. And it's a shift in some of the current mentality of using heavy frameworks (such as spring boot) which blow up anyone's cognitive load.
https://github.com/http4k/http4k
How is the market for Kotlin developers where you live?
10 projects | /r/Kotlin | 2 Mar 2022

http4k with the contract, format-jackson, and server-undertow modules

kottpd

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing http4k and kottpd you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

voyager-server-spring-boot-starter - Easily create REST endpoints with permissions (access control level) and hooks includeded

Doodle - A pure Kotlin UI framework for the Web (and desktop).

vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin

kotlinx.html - Kotlin DSL for HTML

kraph - GraphQL request string builder written in Kotlin

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

KGraphQL

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.

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

Firefly - Firefly is an asynchronous web framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.