Best On-Premises Development Frameworks

Helidon is a cloud-native, open‑source set of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty. Helidon Níma is the first Java microservices framework based on virtual threads. Helidon is designed to be simple to use, with tooling and examples to get you going quickly. Since Helidon is simply a collection of Java libraries running on a fast Netty core, there is no extra overhead or bloat. Helidon supports MicroProfile and provides familiar APIs like JAX-RS, CDI, and JSON-P/B. Our implementation runs on our fast Helidon Reactive WebServer. Helidon Reactive WebServer provides a modern functional programming model and runs on top of Netty. Lightweight, flexible, and reactive, the Helidon WebServer provides a simple-to-use and fast foundation for your microservices. With support for health checks, metrics, tracing, and fault tolerance, Helidon has what you need to write cloud-ready applications that integrate with Prometheus, Jaeger/Zipkin, etc.

A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale. restify optimizes for introspection and performance and is used in some of the largest Node.js deployments on Earth. Running at scale requires tracing problems back to their origin by separating noise from the signal. restify is built from the ground up with post-mortem debugging in mind. Staying true to the spec is one of the foremost goals of the project. You will see references to RFCs littered throughout GitHub issues and the codebase. restify is used by some of the industry's most respected companies to power some of the largest deployments of Node.js on planet Earth—the future of Node.js REST development. Setting up a server is quick and easy. Like many other Node. js-based REST frameworks, restify leverages a Sinatra-style syntax for defining routes and the function handlers that service those routes.

Build powerful, scalable applications, with minimal overhead and full out-of-the-box functionality, your code, your way. Developed initially to handle Walmart’s Black Friday sales, hapi continues to be the proven choice for enterprise-grade backend needs. When you install hapi, every single line of code you get has been verified. You never have to worry about some deep dependency being poorly maintained (or handed over to someone sketchy). hapi is the only leading node framework without any external code dependencies. hapi requires the most secure settings to manage, control, and distribute code, including 2FA for all contributors. Every hapi component comes with the most secure defaults out of the box. Along with protecting server load with payload limits and request timeouts, hapi blocks error messages that could leak information or echo back exploits. The most comprehensive authorization and authentication API available in a Node framework.

Han­dle more re­quests with fewer re­sources com­pared to tra­di­tional stacks and frame­works based on block­ing I/O. Vert.x is a great fit for all kinds of ex­e­cu­tion en­vi­ron­ments, in­clud­ing con­strained en­vi­ron­ments like vir­tual ma­chines and con­tain­ers. Peo­ple told you asyn­chro­nous pro­gram­ming is too hard for you? We strive to make pro­gram­ming with Vert.x an ap­proach­able ex­pe­ri­ence, with­out sac­ri­fy­ing cor­rect­ness and per­for­mance. Don’t waste re­sources, in­crease de­ploy­ment den­sity and save money. You pick the model that works best for the task at hand, call­backs, promises, fu­tures, re­ac­tive ex­ten­sions, and (Kotlin) corou­tines. Vert.x is a toolkit, not a frame­work, so it is nat­u­rally very com­pos­able and em­bed­d­a­ble. We have no strong opin­ion on what your ap­pli­ca­tion struc­ture should be like. Se­lect the mod­ules and clients you need and com­pose them as you craft your ap­pli­ca­tion.

A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot. Convention-over-configuration, sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and the Groovy language combine to make the Grails® framework easy to learn for Java developers. The Grails framework is built on top of Spring Boot and leverages Spring Boot's time-saving features, such as Spring-powered dependency injection. The Grails framework seamlessly and transparently integrates and interoperates with Java, the JVM, and existing Java EE containers. Apache Groovy is a language for the Java platform designed to enhance developers' productivity. It is an optionally-typed and dynamic language but with static-typing and static compilation capabilities. The Grails framework seamlessly integrates with GORM, a data access toolkit that provides a rich set of APIs for accessing relational and non-relational data. GORM also includes implementations for Hibernate (SQL), MongoDB, Cassandra, and Neo4j.

AdonisJS includes everything you need to create a fully functional web app or an API server. So stop wasting hours downloading and assembling hundreds of packages. Use AdonisJS and be productive from day one. AdonisJS is not a minimalist framework. To give your projects a head start, we pack many baseline features within the core of the framework. AdonisJS has a feature-rich routing layer with support for route groups, subdomain-based routing, and resource resources. Controllers are first-class citizens in AdonisJS. They help you remove the inline route handlers to dedicated controller files. Along with the standard body parser, the support for managing file uploads is baked into the framework core. The schema-based validator of AdonisJS provides you with both runtime validations and static type safety. Create traditional-style server-rendered web apps using the home-grown template engine of AdonisJS.

A highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices. A brand new LoopBack core to deliver great extensibility and flexibility written in TypeScript/ES2017. Create powerful APIs easily with a new creative experience for defining REST APIs and handling API requests/responses. A new, improved programming model with dependency injection and new concepts such as components, mixins, repositories, etc. make this the most extensible version yet. The LoopBack 4 CLI is a command-line interface that can scaffold a project or extension. The CLI provides the fastest way to get started with a LoopBack 4 project that adheres to best practices. LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. Access data from major relational databases, MongoDB, SOAP, and REST APIs. Incorporate model relationships and access controls for complex APIs.