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13 Best Free and Open Source Java Micro-Frameworks

This article examines the best Java micro-frameworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.

spair is a small and fast frontend framework for Single Page Application.

Pippo is a micro web framework in Java, with minimal dependencies and a quick learning curve.

Helidon is a cloud-native, open‑source set of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty.

Armeria is a microservice framework for any situation. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies.

Jodd is set of micro-frameworks and developer-friendly tools and utilities.

Rapidoid is an extremely fast HTTP server and modern Java web framework / application container.

Quarkus is a cloud native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards.

Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services.

Spring Boot helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.

Flask is a micro web framework written in Python based on the Werkzeug toolkit and Jinja2 template engine.

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services.

aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP Client/Server for asyncio and Python. aiohttp is free and open source software.

Sanic is a Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that’s written to go fast. Sanic is free and open source software.