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Play vs Vert.x: What are the differences?

Play: The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications; Vert.x: A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM. It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.

Play and Vert.x belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Play is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 3.77K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Play's open source repository on GitHub.

Coursera, Zalando, and Keen are some of the popular companies that use Play, whereas Vert.x is used by OpenGov, AgoraPulse, and NOYSI. Play has a broader approval, being mentioned in 112 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to Vert.x, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of Play

Pros of Vert.x

81
Scala
55
Web-friendly architecture
55
Built on akka
50
Stateless
47
High-scalable
46
Fast
40
Open source
34
Java
27
High velocity
24
Fun
9
Lightweight
8
Non-blocking io
6
Developer friendly
5
Simple template engine
4
Scalability
3
Pure love
2
Resource efficient

13
Light weight
12
Fast
8
Java
6
Developers Are Super
5
Extensible
2
Easy Socks.js integration
2
Asynchronous
1
Strong concurrency model
1
Great tooling
1
Easy integration
1
Central Config (Redis)
1
Good documentation
1
Abstract data grid API
1
Unopinionated
1
Clustering Infrastructure
1
Scalable
1
Parallelism
1
Actor-like model

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Cons of Play

Cons of Vert.x

3
Evolves fast, keep up with releases
1
Unnecessarily complicated

2
Steep Learning Curve
2
Too Many Conflicting Versions And Suggestions

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What is Play?

Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

What is Vert.x?

It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.

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What are some alternatives to Play and Vert.x?

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

ASP.NET

.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

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