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Leptus vs Spark Framework

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Overview

Spark Framework
Spark Framework
Stacks39
Followers91
Votes7
GitHub Stars9.7K
Forks1.6K
Leptus
Leptus
Stacks0
Followers4
Votes0
GitHub Stars346
Forks49

Leptus vs Spark Framework: What are the differences?

Leptus: Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy. Leptus simplifies creating RESTful APIs in Erlang; Spark Framework: A micro framework for creating web applications in Kotlin and Java 8 with minimal effort. It is a simple and expressive Java/Kotlin web framework DSL built for rapid development. Its intention is to provide an alternative for Kotlin/Java developers that want to develop their web applications as expressive as possible and with minimal boilerplate.

Leptus and Spark Framework can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Leptus is an open source tool with 335 GitHub stars and 54 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Leptus's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on Spark Framework, Leptus

Juan José
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

Spark Framework
Spark Framework
Leptus
Leptus

It is a simple and expressive Java/Kotlin web framework DSL built for rapid development. Its intention is to provide an alternative for Kotlin/Java developers that want to develop their web applications as expressive as possible and with minimal boilerplate.

Leptus simplifies creating RESTful APIs in Erlang.

Built for productivity; Lets you take full advantage of the JVM
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
9.7K
GitHub Stars
346
GitHub Forks
1.6K
GitHub Forks
49
Stacks
39
Stacks
0
Followers
91
Followers
4
Votes
7
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 2
    Very easy to get up and running. Lovely API
  • 1
    Easy
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Ideal for microservices
  • 1
    Native paralelization
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Integrations
Kotlin
Kotlin
Java
Java
Erlang
Erlang

What are some alternatives to Spark Framework, Leptus?

ExpressJS

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.

Django REST framework

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Sails.js

Sails.js

Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

Sinatra

Sinatra

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Lumen

Lumen

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

Slim

Slim

Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

Fastify

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%.

Falcon

Falcon

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

hapi

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.

TypeORM

TypeORM

It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.

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