Ratpack
Lean & powerful HTTP apps (by ratpack)
javalin
A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin] (by tipsy)
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| Ratpack | javalin | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 23 | |
| 1,935 | 5,583 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 8.3 | 9.1 | |
| 24 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Java | Kotlin | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
Ratpack
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ratpack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
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Rife Is a Framework Experiment
There are a huge set of web frameworks in Java that have the same example as shown on this site; I have no idea how this differs from, say, https://ratpack.io or https://sparkjava.com. This really needs some key features on the site to sell it.
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ratpack: a simpleton's HTTP framework
Ratpack is also the name of a Java web framework - https://ratpack.io
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria
- A linguagem de programação Groovy - Radar da itexto
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 Ratpack 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
Vaadin - Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
Spring - Spring Framework
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.
Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin