Spring Framework vs Redwood: What are the differences?
Developers describe Spring Framework as "An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform". It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform.. On the other hand, Redwood is detailed as "An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack". It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.
Spring Framework and Redwood can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, Redwood provides the following key features:
- Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and more
- Simple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs)
- Automatic page-based code-splitting
Spring Framework and Redwood are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 35.9K GitHub stars and 23.9K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Redwood with 2.69K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.