Hug vs Javalin

Overview

Hug

Stacks14

Followers55

Votes12

Javalin

Stacks30

Followers64

Votes3

Hug vs Javalin: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hug as "New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework". Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development. On the other hand, Javalin is detailed as "Simple REST APIs for Java and Kotlin". Javalin started as a fork of the Spark framework but quickly turned into a ground-up rewrite influenced by express.js. Both of these web frameworks are inspired by the modern micro web framework grandfather: Sinatra, so if you’re coming from Ruby then Javalin shouldn’t feel too unfamiliar.

Hug and Javalin belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

Hug and Javalin are both open source tools. It seems that Hug with 5.8K GitHub stars and 344 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Javalin with 3.05K GitHub stars and 257 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Hug, Javalin

Juan José

May 1, 2020

Decided

I developed Hexagon heavily inspired in these great tools because of the following reasons:

Take full advantage of the Kotlin programming language without any strings attached to Java (as a language).
I wanted to be able to replace the HTTP server library used with different adapters (Jetty, Netty, etc.) and though right now there is only one, more are coming.
Have a complete tool to do full applications, though you can use other libraries, Hexagon comes with a dependency injection helper, settings loading from different sources and HTTP Client, so it comes with (batteries included).

Right now I'm using it for my pet projects, and I'm happy with it.

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Detailed Comparison

Hug	Javalin
Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.	Javalin started as a fork of the Spark framework but quickly turned into a ground-up rewrite influenced by express.js. Both of these web frameworks are inspired by the modern micro web framework grandfather: Sinatra, so if you’re coming from Ruby then Javalin shouldn’t feel too unfamiliar.
Statistics
Stacks 14	Stacks 30
Followers 55	Followers 64
Votes 12	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Simple 2 Fast 2 Elegant 2 Self documenting 2 REST	Pros 1 Does not require IDEA plugins 1 Rich support of template engines 1 Lightweight
Integrations
Python	Kotlin Java

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