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For those in the JVM world, is grails good to look into?
by cordite 8y ago
For those in the JVM world, is grails good to look into?
- debug-desperado 8y agoGroovy and Grails are still around but probably not as big a push anymore. I would highly recommend JHipster to bootstrap a new Spring Boot app. It does monoliths or microservices and gives you a great scaffold to build on top of.
- jacques_chester 8y agoSpring Boot + Kotlin is a pretty sweet experience.
- debug-desperado 8y agoI bet. After doing the Kotlin Koans I'm itching to get away from Java. There is a JHipster Kotlin blueprint that generates the backend code with Kotlin instead of Java. Can't wait to use it.
- vips7L 8y agoIirc grails is built on top of Spring.
- chessturk 8y agoI maintain a legacy Grails app, it's memory hungry and brittle. A bug one place brings down all parts of it. I hate it but I'm no Java expert.
- zmmmmm 8y agoThe more modern take on it is micronaut [1]. It's a good fit if you are building a SPA + REST API style app, but want the plugin / addon style ecosystem of grails / rails. [1] http://micronaut.io http://micronaut.io
- joemccall86 8y agoAbsolutely! There's a big 4.0 release happening soon as well that includes micronaut integration. Furthermore, there are profiles you can start with today that let you create a react, angular, or vue SPA app powered by the grails back-end. Add the fact that it's a spring boot app as well and you get an incredible library of resources available to you. We've been running our app in production with relatively few developers.
- vorg 8y ago> Absolutely! There's a big 4.0 release happening soon Virtually no-one's updated from Grails version 2 to version 3, or released any plugins for version 3, so it's hard to believe anyone's interested in a 4.0 release.