It depends what you want. Personally, I have moved on from Grails because (a) it's too bloated (long startup times, huge number of dependencies, very complicate

It depends what you want. Personally, I have moved on from Grails because (a) it's too bloated (long startup times, huge number of dependencies, very complicated to understand under the hood) and (b) a lot of that bloat is doing things that are no longer valuable to me. That is because I now code front ends more SPA style (VueJS etc) so all of the sophisticated front-end Grails stuff is completely unused and it mostly just sits there serving up REST-style APIs for which all that bloat isn't necessary. So for now I am using Micronaut [1], which I'm combining with VueJS. If that interests you, there's a project which is a template for setting up a whole front-end, backend combo based on that with a few commands [2]. Good luck! [1] http://micronaut.io/ http://micronaut.io/ [2] https://gitlab.com/ssadedin/micronaut-vuejs https://gitlab.com/ssadedin/micronaut-vuejs