javalin.github.io VS minum

The size statistics page is super cool: https://github.com/byronka/minum/blob/master/docs/size_compa...

Reasoning this way about software and dependencies more often seems like a good thing, just so we're aware of what we're actually getting into, especially with projects that use npm.

I actually hadn't heard of Javalin before, which also seems nice: https://javalin.io/

Aside from that, I've also had good experiences with Dropwizard - which is way simpler than Spring Boot but at the same time uses a bunch of idiomatic packages (like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Logback and so on): https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/

I do wonder whether Minum would ever end up on the TechEmpower benchmarks and how it'd stack up against the other libraries/frameworks there, those benchmarks are pretty interesting.

Counter-example: https://javalin.io/ uses Servlets, and seems to be doing quite fine without annotations.

Yes, and it was not that well designed to be honest... the successor is quite a lot nicer and it's called Javalin[1].

Same philosophy but just got things right where Spark, being the "first" (in the Java world, using the design inherited by Sinatra[2]) had a few design issues.

[1] https://javalin.io/

[2] https://sinatrarb.com/

I strongly advocate frameworks like https://javalin.io/ and Jooq (https://www.jooq.org/) if you are going to start a new project in Java.

- Database/Web server: provided by the Minum web framework (https://github.com/byronka/minum)

Quick start: https://github.com/byronka/minum/blob/master/docs/quick_star...

Announcing the beta of an open-source minimalist Java web framework, Minum: https://github.com/byronka/minum.