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| Ratpack | Vert.x | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 46 | |
| 1,934 | 14,046 | |
| 0.2% | 0.6% | |
| 8.3 | 9.6 | |
| 1 day ago | 7 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Ratpack
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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
Vert.x
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Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin
https://vertx.io/
It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
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Reactive database access on the JVM
Hibernate Reactive integrates with Vert.x, but an extension allows to bridge to Project Reactor if wanted
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Looking for a coroutine-based message broker implementation for inter-app communication.
Have you looked at Vert.x?
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What's the state of server-side frameworks with Kotlin support today for small teams?
Explicitly so:
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Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
I really like Eclipse Vert.x... As both an Erlang dev and Java dev, it's a great synergy and soon to have support for Virtual Threads similar to BEAM.
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Go doesn’t do any magical stuff and I love that
There are many lean, popular, non-magical libraries in Java land. (https://quarkus.io/, https://vertx.io/, etc). Spring is a monster 😱. Its like comparing Kubernetes (written in Go) with some lean framework in another lang.
- PFA vs SRL
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Favorite hidden gem library?
Eclipse Vert.x - Add amazing Async to any Java stack
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Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe
Vert.X example: https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/blob/master/src/main/java/examples/EventBusExamples.java#L106 (couldn't even find docs)
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Quarkus fundamentals
In fact, it builds on top of proven standards such as Eclipse MicroProfile or frameworks such as Vert.x or JAX‑RS.
What are some alternatives?
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM
Vaadin - Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
Spring - Spring Framework
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Grails - The Grails Web Application Framework
Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework
Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices