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Juan José Aguililla Martínez
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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Pros of Fastify
- Performance21
- Easy to use13
- Lightweight12
- Open source9
- Middleware9
- Highly customizable6
- Developer friendly4
- Decorators4
- Low overhead4
- Built-in Typescript support4
- Mature3
- Schema based3
- Plugins3
Pros of FeathersJS
- Real-time12
- Choose any ORM7
- Datastore Agnostic7
- Flexible Plugins6
- Choose Socketio or Primus5
- Easy Rest4
- Isomorphic Services API4
- Open source4
- Scalable3
- Easy to use with Graphql3
- Documentation3
- Service-oriented architecture3
- Data-driven APIs3
- Uses express, will support other options soon3
- Advanced Composable Service Middleware called holds3
Pros of Javalin
- Lightweight1
- Rich support of template engines1
- Does not require IDEA plugins1
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- Small community1
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What is Fastify?
Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.
What is FeathersJS?
Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.
What is Javalin?
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.
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What are some alternatives to Fastify, FeathersJS, and Javalin?
Koa
Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.
Restify
A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale. it optimizes for introspection and performance.
hapi
hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.
Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.