gun VS mint

Compare gun vs mint and see what are their differences.

mint

Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 🌱 (by elixir-mint)
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gun mint
1 3
884 1,328
1.1% 1.2%
5.5 6.9
22 days ago 8 days ago
Erlang Elixir
ISC License Apache License 2.0
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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.

mint

Posts with mentions or reviews of mint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-24.
  • Unpacking Elixir: Resilience
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2023
    One example is HTTP libraries.

    For instance, take Mint (https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint):

    > Mint is different from most Erlang and Elixir HTTP clients because it provides a process-less architecture.

    Mint is a low-level library which doesn't make attempt to manage processes (including HTTP pooling).

    In contrast, Finch (which builds on top of Mint) includes pool management:

    https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint#connection-management-an...

    It can take someone a bit off guard when they realise that the library they use provide a "default pool" they were not aware of, and that it can become a bottleneck etc.

  • How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2023
    > no error checking at all

    Functions that raise always end in `!` in Elixir, or at least they should. Most have alternatives that return error tuples instead which you can pattern match on (this is what I recommend). You can read the docs for `get/2` (as opposed to `get!/2` which raises) here: https://hexdocs.pm/req/Req.html#get/2.

    A common pattern is for the `!` version to call the version that doesn't raise, check the result, and raise on error, which is the case here: https://github.com/wojtekmach/req/blob/9de30de0df481ee557ccc...

    > and if "body" is JSON, how do you even get the raw body, or can you?

    You would set `decode: false` when calling `get!/2: https://hexdocs.pm/req/Req.html#new/1. You can also set this as configuration with https://hexdocs.pm/req/Req.html#default_options/1.

    As a closing note I'll mention that Req is intended to be a very high-level, scripting-friendly requests library, similar to Requests in Python. If you don't want conveniences like Req provides, you can either turn them off or use something different, like Finch (which Req is based on, https://github.com/sneako/finch). Other than Req and Finch I'm personally only familiar with HTTPoison, which is significantly older than all of the libraries derived from Mint (like Finch and Req, https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint) but still works. There are many others though, like Gun and Tesla and such.

  • ElixirのHTTPクライアントでお天気情報を取得したい(2022年)
    8 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

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

finch - Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance

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

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

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

ivar - Ivar is an adapter based HTTP client that provides the ability to build composable HTTP requests.

bolt - Simple and fast http proxy living in the Erlang VM

uri_template - RFC 6570 compliant URI template processor for Elixir