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Spring vs Volt

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Overview

Spring
Spring
Stacks3.9K
Followers4.8K
Votes1.1K
GitHub Stars59.1K
Forks38.8K
Volt
Volt
Stacks19
Followers54
Votes26
GitHub Stars3.2K
Forks194

Spring vs Volt: What are the differences?

What is Spring? Provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications. 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.

What is Volt? A ruby web framework where your ruby runs on both server and client. Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

Spring and Volt can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Java" is the primary reason why developers consider Spring over the competitors, whereas "Handlebars" was stated as the key factor in picking Volt.

Spring and Volt are both open source tools. Spring with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Volt with 3.3K GitHub stars and 209 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Spring, Volt

Tushar
Tushar

Jan 7, 2021

Needs adviceonSpringSpringSpring BootSpring BootDjangoDjango

Is learning Spring and Spring Boot for web apps back-end development is still relevant in 2021? Feel free to share your views with comparison to Django/Node.js/ ExpressJS or other frameworks.

Please share some good beginner resources to start learning about spring/spring boot framework to build the web apps.

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Ethan
Ethan

Jan 16, 2023

Needs adviceonNode.jsNode.jsDjangoDjangoGolangGolang

So currently I have experience in Node.js, but just to expand my stack knowledge and for getting backend developer roles, I thought of learning another backend-related language/framework. I have heard about Django, Golang, and Spring. I am mostly trying for backend API roles, and far as I've heard, Django REST framework can be a pain to work with. I've heard there are issues with Golang for package management (like how recently the Gorilla web toolkit is archived) and as for Spring, it's a vast ecosystem to learn so not sure if it's worth investing in. I would like to know which tool/framework to learn, which can help me get high-paying jobs and has a lot of scopes, and also which is great for making REST APIs. Any other tool that can do the job better than these three is also welcome!

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Dec 15, 2020

Needs adviceonSpringSpringJavaJavaNode.jsNode.js

I am provided with the opportunity to learn one of these technologies during my training. I have prior experience with Spring and found it tough and still haven't figured out when to use what annotations among the thousands of annotations provided. On the other hand, I am very proficient in Java data structures and algorithms (custom comparators, etc.)

I have used Node.js and found it interesting, but I am wondering If I am taking the risk of choosing a framework that has a comparatively lesser scope in the future. One advantage I see with the node.js is the number of tutorials available and the ease with which I can code.

Please recommend which path to take. Is Spring learnable, or should I spend my energy on learning Node.js instead?

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Detailed Comparison

Spring
Spring
Volt
Volt

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.

Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

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Instead of syncing data between the client and server via HTTP, volt uses a persistent connection between the client and server;When data is updated on one client, it is updated in the database and any other listening clients (with almost no setup code needed);Pages HTML is written in a handlebars like template language;Volt uses data flow/reactive programming to automatically and intelligently propagate changes to the DOM (or anything other code wanting to know when a value updates)
Statistics
GitHub Stars
59.1K
GitHub Stars
3.2K
GitHub Forks
38.8K
GitHub Forks
194
Stacks
3.9K
Stacks
19
Followers
4.8K
Followers
54
Votes
1.1K
Votes
26
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 230
    Java
  • 157
    Open source
  • 136
    Great community
  • 123
    Very powerful
  • 114
    Enterprise
Cons
  • 15
    Draws you into its own ecosystem and bloat
  • 4
    Poor documentation
  • 3
    Java
  • 3
    Verbose configuration
  • 2
    Java is more verbose language in compare to python
Pros
  • 3
    Rich web applications
  • 3
    Holy Grail (Server-Client)
  • 3
    Reactive Web Framework
  • 3
    Open source
  • 3
    Ruby client side
Integrations
Java
Java
Ruby
Ruby

What are some alternatives to Spring, Volt?

Node.js

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.

Rails

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django

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

Laravel

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

Symfony

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring Boot

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.

Android SDK

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

Phoenix Framework

Phoenix Framework

Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

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