skrape.it VS Jooby

What is wrong with skrape.it?

This includes many things that Kotlin makes use of, like String.invoke(block: () -> Unit) which is both an extension on String instances and makes uses of Kotlin's "ability" to move lambdas out of parentheses if they are the last argument (so something like log(lazyString: () -> String), can be used as log({ "message" }), or log { "message" }, @DslMarker (to allow a String.invoke(() -> Unit) block in the form of "it should behave well", only inside the context of a StringSpec.), infix funs (+ is infix operator fun plus(), with some slightly specific language handling because it's extremely common, infix fun shouldBe). This is using Kotest (https://kotest.io/docs/framework/writing-tests.html), but other tools like Ktor, Skrape.it (https://github.com/skrapeit/skrape.it), and more: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/type-safe-builders.html

I use skrape{it} (https://github.com/skrapeit/skrape.it) in my projects for 5 months now. Pretty good library IMO.Q

One of the good things about it is that using asynchrony is optional. If you don't have to call out anywhere to build the response, processing can all stay in the handler's calling thread. If you do, you can return a future and have the library handle the async for you.

One downside is that it is based on Jetty which isn't considered the most performant backend. A lib with a similar API but based on Netty is Jooby [1] which scores well in the Techempower benchmarks.

[1] - https://jooby.io/

Jooby and Helidon SE are among the best.

The code snippet gave me a vibe like it was jooby Looks cool, I suggest maybe start incorporating Project Loom virtual threads in the future.

Speaking of backend development, recently I gave Jooby[1] a try after discovering it was one of the world's top performer in Tech Empower's web framework benchmark[2].

Surprisingly enough, it's terribly easy to put together a REST API with Jooby. I wonder why it's adoption rate is so low.

[1] https://jooby.io/

[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Do you need to use Spring btw? If you want to broaden the tool selection I've had great success with i.e Jooby (https://jooby.io/) together with Kotlin coroutines. Another alternative is the KTOR framework.

Jooby I think is the best bet. https://jooby.io/ watch out for jooby dot org I think someone sniped the domain.

Spring Boot or JAXRS. I personally use Jooby a lot which is similar in style to spark but has annotation support and isn't a singleton.