Javalin vs Leptus

Overview

Javalin

Stacks30

Followers64

Votes3

Leptus

Stacks0

Followers4

Votes0

GitHub Stars346

Forks49

Javalin vs Leptus: What are the differences?

What is Javalin? 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.

What is Leptus? Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy. Leptus simplifies creating RESTful APIs in Erlang.

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

Javalin and Leptus are both open source tools. It seems that Javalin with 3.05K GitHub stars and 257 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Leptus with 335 GitHub stars and 52 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Javalin, Leptus

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

Javalin	Leptus
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.	Leptus simplifies creating RESTful APIs in Erlang.
-	Supports GET, PUT, POST and DELETE HTTP methods;Can respond in plain text or JSON;Supports basic authentication;Can be upgraded while it’s running (no stopping is required);Supports HTTPS;Provides a simple way for dealing with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 346
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 49
Stacks 30	Stacks 0
Followers 64	Followers 4
Votes 3	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Does not require IDEA plugins 1 Rich support of template engines 1 Lightweight	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Kotlin Java	Erlang

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