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InfluxDB
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Spring Boot
Spring Boot helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.
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Graal
GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀
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turbo
The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript (by hotwired)
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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NullAway
A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead
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cask
Cask: a Scala HTTP micro-framework. Cask makes it easy to set up a website, backend server, or REST API using Scala (by lihaoyi)
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http4k
The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
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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.
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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.
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tipsy/javalin is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of javalin is Kotlin.
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