.NET Core vs Spring MVC: What are the differences?
What is .NET Core? An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community. Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.
What is Spring MVC? A Java framework which is used to build web applications. A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.
.NET Core and Spring MVC belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by .NET Core are:
- Cross-platform
- Consistent across architectures
- Command-line tools
On the other hand, Spring MVC provides the following key features:
- Clear separation of roles
- Customizable binding and validation
- Adaptability
.NET Core and Spring MVC are both open source tools. Spring MVC with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than .NET Core with 11.2K GitHub stars and 2.41K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, .NET Core has a broader approval, being mentioned in 54 company stacks & 71 developers stacks; compared to Spring MVC, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.