Why developers like Project Reactor

What is Project Reactor?

It is a fourth-generation Reactive library for building non-blocking applications on the JVM based on the Reactive Streams Specification. It is a fully non-blocking foundation with efficient demand management. It directly interacts with Java functional API, Completable Future, Stream and Duration.

Project Reactor is a tool in the Java Tools category of a tech stack.

Who uses Project Reactor?

Companies

10 companies reportedly use Project Reactor in their tech stacks, including Backend, Edgelab, and immmr.

Backend

Edgelab

immmr

Relay42

Backend

Flip App

Spring Cloud Netflix

Tech Stack

Juros Baixos

Developers

58 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Project Reactor.

My Stack

Qhix Tech Stack

interest

springboot2

Personal Stack

My Stack

Microservice Orchestrator

stack

My Stack

Project Reactor Integrations

Java

Spring Boot

Axon

Decisions about Project Reactor

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Project Reactor in their tech stack.

perplexeddev

Jul 13, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 17.1K views

Needs advice

Akka

Project Reactor

and

RxJava

I am working on a project to read data (millions of data) from JMS queue, process the data, and push it to another queue. I am new to Java world, and I have been reading about Spring, Project Reactor, ReactiveRx, etc., for the last couple of days. I am looking for a framework that is easy to use, has less ramp-up time, thread-safety, non-blocking I/O, and less latency. Based on my reading, I am leaning towards ProjectReactor since it has integration with Spring Boot, and it directly interacts with Java functional API, Completable Future, Stream, and Duration. Also, later on, I may have to extend this to read from a different source, so the code should be extensible.

I would like to get thoughts/advice on this.

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Project Reactor's Features

Fully non-blocking and provides efficient demand management. It directly interacts with Java's functional API, CompletableFuture, Stream, and Duration
Efficient Message Passing
Well-suited for a microservices architecture, it offers backpressure-ready network engines for HTTP (including Websockets), TCP, and UDP

Project Reactor Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Project Reactor?

RxJava

A library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences for the Java VM.

Akka

Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

guava

The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.

Java 8

It is a revolutionary release of the world’s no 1 development platform. It includes a huge upgrade to the Java programming model and a coordinated evolution of the JVM, Java language, and libraries. Java 8 includes features for productivity, ease of use, improved polyglot programming, security and improved performance.

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