Ninja
Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. Rock solid, fast and super productive. (by ninjaframework)
javalin
A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin] (by tipsy)
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| Ninja | javalin | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 | |
| 1,913 | 5,583 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 5.9 | 9.1 | |
| 5 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Java | 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.
Ninja
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ninja.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-07.
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On the Future of Akka and Lightbend
It’s a shame that the Play framework is being abandoned. v1 had a lot of great ideas, but v2 kind of jumped off the cliff into Scala lala-land, where it got lost in the weeds. It never really recovered.
If you’re looking for a straightforward Java framework similar to Play v1 check out Ninja:
https://www.ninjaframework.org/
For me at least, it hits a sweet spot of enabling fast productive development and maintainable code.
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best light framework or library for developing API without the magic (Spring)
take a look at https://www.ninjaframework.org/
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
Javalin
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Java Servlets
If you're already familiar with most of the concepts around HTTP and web services, I'd recommend using something like https://javalin.io/ which is light weight frame work that makes getting something up and running quickly a very easy task.
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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:
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There is no magic in Spring, I wrote my own (very simplified) framework from scratch to show it
If you want to do a proper comparison between the two, I would be happy to help with code examples from Javalin's side. I could even host it on https://javalin.io as a "Comparison to Jooby" blog post.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Ninja and javalin you can also consider the following projects:
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Spring - Spring Framework
Vaadin - Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
Grails - The Grails Web Application Framework
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin
http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
ZK - ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications