gun VS cowboy

Compare gun vs cowboy and see what are their differences.

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gun cowboy
1 10
884 7,162
1.1% 0.5%
5.5 8.4
21 days ago 13 days ago
Erlang Erlang
ISC License ISC License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

gun

Posts with mentions or reviews of gun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.
  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

cowboy

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowboy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gun and cowboy you can also consider the following projects:

http_proxy - http proxy with Elixir. wait request with multi port and forward to each URIs

bandit - Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications

mint - Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 🌱

elli - Simple, robust and performant Erlang web server

lhttpc - What used to be here -- this is a backwards-compat user and repo m(

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

finch - Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance

plug_cowboy - Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server

HttpCanary - A powerful capture and injection tool for the Android platform

heroku-buildpack-nodejs - Heroku's buildpack for Node.js applications.

Crawly - Crawly, a high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.

mochiweb - MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.