javalin
A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin] (by tipsy)
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. (by line)
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| javalin | Armeria | |
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| 23 | 7 | |
| 5,583 | 4,664 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 9.1 | 9.6 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| Kotlin | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
javalin
Posts with mentions or reviews of javalin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.
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Looking for maintainer for jvm-brotli
If you've read this far, you might be interested to know that Javalin has been offering Brotli compression through jvm-brotli for three years already, and that there have been no (reported) issues. In other words, the effort required to release and maintain this is probably not huge.
- Using "equivalents" in other languages to help learn
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Question about Kotlin from an ex-Java developer
I'm a big fan of Ktor (ktor.io) but another reasonable lightweight alternative is Javelin (https://javalin.io/). Heck even Spring Boot isn't that bad. HikariCP + JooQ (has both java and kotlin codegen) for DB access if you need and you're good to go.
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Turbo: The speed of a SPA without writing JavaScript
A similar alternative that does not rely on web sockets is https://htmx.org. I have greatly enjoyed using it with some simpler web frameworks like https://javalin.io to do some prototyping and smaller projects. I'm sure if someone made a plug and play UI library like material UI for Angular on top of htmx you could absolutely fly through MVPs.
- Does Java has an equivalent to Django/Laravel/Node
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria
Javalin
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Why people don't love Java?
I've been looking at https://javalin.io/ Seems close enough to express and some big names are using it, so I wouldn't say it's fizzling out
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Is there Expressjs like framework for java
Javalin (https://javalin.io) is strongly inspired by Express and Koa, so you should feel right at home:
Armeria
Posts with mentions or reviews of Armeria.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-14.
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria
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A Kotlin programmer's approach to microservices?
Check out Armeria, it's a newer framework from the creator of Netty for micro services and comes with many builtin functionalities for service discovery, logging and fault tolerance. It's getting a lot of adoption from companies like Slack, Doordash, Afterpay and Databricks too. It kind of reminds me of Finagle from the Scala ecosystem in that it supports many different protocols (gRPC, thrift and HTTP).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing javalin and Armeria you can also consider the following projects:
ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
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.
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin
vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin
spark-kotlin - A Spark DSL in idiomatic kotlin // dependency: com.sparkjava:spark-kotlin:1.0.0-alpha
springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot
unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Google HTTP Client - Google HTTP Client Library for Java