Spring Framework vs Vapor: What are the differences?
Spring Framework: An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform.; Vapor: A type-safe web framework for Swift. Vapor is the first true web framework for Swift. It provides a beautifully expressive foundation for your app without tying you to any single server implementation.
Spring Framework and Vapor can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, Vapor provides the following key features:
- Pure Swift (No makefiles, module maps)
- Modular
- Beautifully expressive
Spring Framework and Vapor are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Vapor with 16.8K GitHub stars and 997 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Spring Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to Vapor, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.