pellet
An opinionated, Kotlin-first web framework that helps you write fast, concise, and correct backend services 🚀. (by lopcode)
ktor
Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort (by ktorio)
| pellet | ktor | |
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| 2 | 49 | |
| 35 | 12,280 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 5.9 | 9.4 | |
| 14 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Kotlin | Kotlin | |
| 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.
pellet
Posts with mentions or reviews of pellet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Building a routing system for Pellet, a Kotlin web framework
I made a tracking issue for this here: https://github.com/CarrotCodes/Pellet/issues/61 - I'll probably work on some other things for a bit before getting around to it though.
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Building structured logging in to Pellet, a Kotlin web framework
Played around with it and default methods made things much easier to discover, so it's merged: https://github.com/CarrotCodes/Pellet/pull/60
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 2024-04-25.
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Kotlin Routing - routing everything
In paralel Jetbrains has created a lot of KMP frameworks that are awesome. One of them is Ktor that helps "create asynchronous client and server applications."
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Creating a Ktor Server with Gradle and SDKMAN!: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ktor, a powerful web framework built with Kotlin, offers a lightweight and flexible solution for building web applications. In this article, we will guide you through the process of creating a Ktor project manually using Gradle and SDKMAN!. By following the steps below, you'll have a basic Ktor project up and running in no time.
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Spring MVC vs Django vs RoR vs some Kotlin Framework?
take a look at http4k and ktor for Kotlin specific frameworks Spring has first class support for Kotlin e.g. the following will give you reactive HTTP endpoints when using spring-webflux (this is what is use at work):
- Your recommendations for backend?
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What are good examples of well written code in Kotlin (e.g HTTP4K)
Ktor (Microservices framework by JetBrains)
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Akka-HTTP in android
For Android you should use a more mobile friendly framework like Retrofit or if you use Kotlin you can use the multi-platform Ktor library with it's client module
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Anyone here who uses compose-multiplatform for desktop apps, what’s your feedback?
And last but not least, Ktor Client as our HTTP client. https://ktor.io/ It's a pretty amazing http client library and integrates well with Kotlinx serialization and Coroutines.
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Which JVM Language Would You Choose for a New Server-Side Project?
Kotlin is going to be great with almost every single JVM server. Spring works well with Kotlin, and is directly supported, but spring is also massive, very bloated. I recommend looking at https://github.com/ktorio/ktor which continues to serve all of my needs very well, integrates fantastically with Kotlin coroutines, and has very fast startup time and very good performance.
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Exposed RSQL Search Implementation
For the sake of the test, we use Ktor - the easiest way to do so is to use initializer.
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Learning materials for Spring Boot and/or Quarkus
I know you are looking for Spring Boot and/or Quarkus, but have you tried ktor. Just curios if you had a particular reason for choosing the other 2. Disclaimer: I haven't used ktor.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pellet and ktor you can also consider the following projects:
GraphQL Kotlin - Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin
http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
KGraphQL
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
tekniq - A framework designed around Kotlin providing Restful HTTP Client, JDBC DSL, Loading Cache, Configurations, Validations, and more
wasabi - An HTTP Framework
spring-native - Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support
spark-kotlin - A Spark DSL in idiomatic kotlin // dependency: com.sparkjava:spark-kotlin:1.0.0-alpha
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin