Next.js vs Tower Web: What are the differences?
What is Next.js? *A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps *. Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
What is Tower Web? A fast, boilerplate free, web framework for Rust. Tower Web aims to decouple all HTTP concepts from the application logic. You define a "plain old Rust method" (PORM?). This method takes only the data it needs to complete and returns a struct representing the response. Tower Web does the rest.
Next.js and Tower Web can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Next.js are:
- Zero setup. Use the filesystem as an API
- Only JavaScript. Everything is a function
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting
On the other hand, Tower Web provides the following key features:
- Fast: Fully asynchronous, built on Tokio and Hyper.
- Ergonomic: Tower-web decouples HTTP from your application logic, removing all boilerplate.
- Works on Rust stable: You can use it today.
Next.js and Tower Web are both open source tools. It seems that Next.js with 38.7K GitHub stars and 4.69K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Tower Web with 621 GitHub stars and 45 GitHub forks.