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Netty vs RxJS: What are the differences?
Developers describe Netty as "Asynchronous event-driven network application framework". Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server. On the other hand, RxJS is detailed as "The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript". RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. This project is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS with better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface.
Netty and RxJS belong to "Concurrency Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Netty and RxJS are both open source tools. It seems that Netty with 19.9K GitHub stars and 9.05K forks on GitHub has more adoption than RxJS with 19.7K GitHub stars and 2.26K GitHub forks.
Portfolium, Free Code Camp, and Onefootball are some of the popular companies that use RxJS, whereas Netty is used by Outbrain, Appian, and Rapido. RxJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 57 company stacks & 44 developers stacks; compared to Netty, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
Pros of Netty
- High Performance9
- Easy to use4
- Just like it3
Pros of RxJS
- Easier async data chaining and combining6
- Steep learning curve, but offers predictable operations3
- Observable subjects2
- Ability to build your own stream2
- Works great with any state management implementation2
- Easier testing2
- Lot of build-in operators1
- Simplifies state management1
- Great for push based architecture1
- Documentation1
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Cons of Netty
- Limited resources to learn from2
Cons of RxJS
- Steep learning curve3