There are many alternatives to Spring if you prefer a more DIY approach. Namely Javalin, Micronaut, KTor (for Kotlin folk) and many more (Quarkus was already me

There are many alternatives to Spring if you prefer a more DIY approach. Namely Javalin, Micronaut, KTor (for Kotlin folk) and many more (Quarkus was already mentioned). Spring however is the way to go if you come from a Rails/Django/ASP.NET background and want the framework that everything works with out of the box.