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Awesome Vert.x ★87749

Awesome Vert.x is a list of awesome frameworks, libraries or other components for use with or that use Vert.x ★7962 version 3.

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For Vert.x version 2 check this page.

Contents

• Books
• Build tools
• Web Frameworks
• Authentication Authorisation
• Database Clients
• Integration
• Middleware
• Language Support
• Reactive
• Sync Thread Non Block
• Vert.x Event Bus Clients
• Cluster Managers
• Cloud Support
• Docker
• Microservices
• Search Engines
• Service Factory
• Config
• Dependency Injection
• Testing
• Development Tools
• Miscellaneous
• Distribution
• Examples
• Deployment
• Utilities
• Front-End

Books

• A gentle guide to asynchronous programming with Eclipse Vert.x for Java developers by Julien Ponge, Thomas Segismont and Julien Viet
• Building Reactive Microservices in Java by Clément Escoffier

Build tools

• Vert.x Maven plugin ★22
• Vert.x Gradle plugin

Web Frameworks

• Vert.x Web ★442 - Full featured web toolkit for Vert.x.
• Vert.x Jersey - Create JAX-RS Jersey resources in Vert.x.
• Kovert ★111 - Invisible REST framework for Kotlin + Vert.x Web.
• Handlers ★6 ⏳1Y - Open web framework for Vert.x.
• QBit ★621 - REST and WebSocket method call marshaling and reactive library.
• vertx-rest-storage ★14 - Persistence for REST resources in the filesystem or a redis database.
• Jubilee ★339 ⏳1Y - A rack compatible Ruby HTTP server built on Vert.x 3.
• Knot.x ★90 - Efficient & high-performance integration platform for modern websites built on Vert.x 3.
• Vert.x Jspare ★9 - Improving your Vert.x 3 experience with Jspare Framework.
• Irked ★9 - Annotations-based configuration for Vert.x 3 Web and controller framework.
• REST.VertX ★51 - Lightweight JAX-RS (RestEasy) like annotation processor for Vert.x verticals.
• Atmosphere Vert.x ★31 - Realtime Client Server Framework for the JVM, supporting WebSockets and Server Sent Events with Cross-Browser Fallbacks.

Authentication Authorisation

• Vert.x Auth JDBC - Vert.x authentication/authorisation JDBC based.
• Vert.x Auth JWT - Vert.x Authorisation based on JSON Web Tokens.
• Vert.x Auth Shiro - Vert.x AuthN/AuthZ based on Apache Shiro.
• Vert.x-Pac4j ★80 - Vert.x authentication/authorisation implemented using pac4j.

Database Clients

Clients for connecting to databases

• Relational Databases
  • JDBC ★42 - Asynchronous interface around a JDBC datasource.
  • MySQL ★42 - Asynchronous client for MySQL.
  • PostgreSQL ★42 - Asynchronous client for PostgreSQL.
  • PostgreSQL - Reactive PostgreSQL Client.
  • database ★23 - Client for Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, HyperSQL, etc. designed for security, correctness, and ease of use.
  • jOOQ ★91 - Doing typesafe, asynchronous SQL and generate code using jOOQ.
• NoSQL Databases
  • MongoDB ★29 - An asynchronous client for interacting with a MongoDB database.
  • Redis ★42 - Asynchronous API to interact with Redis.
  • Cassandra - Asynchronous API to interact with Cassandra and Cassandra Mapping.
  • OrientDB ★7 - Non-blocking OrientDB server integration.
  • Bitsy ★1 ⏳1Y - Non-blocking Bitsy Graph server integration.
  • MarkLogic ★2 ⏳2Y - Asynchronous client for Marklogic Database Server.
• vertx-pojo-mapper ★41 - Non-blocking POJO mapping for MySQL and MongoDB.
• vertx-mysql-binlog-client ★14 - A Vert.x client for tapping into MySQL replication stream.
• vertx-mongo-streams ★3 - Helpers to pump Vert.x streams to/from MongoDB GridFS using the MongoDB async driver.

Integration

• Server-Sent Events
  • jEaSSE ★35 - Java Easy SSE. A simple, lightweight implementation of SSE.
  • vertx-sse ★16 - Vert.x SSE implementation + event-bus SSE bridge.
• Mail
  • SMTP ★16 - Async SMTP client.
  • vertx-smtp-server ★2 ⏳2Y - SMTP server bridging to EventBus.
• REST
  • Vertx REST Client ★26 - A REST client for vertx with support for RxJava and request caching.
  • Retrofit adapter for Vert.x ★15 - A highly scalable adapter for Retrofit with Vert.x.
• Messaging
  • AMQP 1.0 ★4 - Interact with AMQP 1.0 servers using the Vert.x Producer and Consumer APIs.
  • MQTT ★59 - Provides two different components : an MQTT server for handling all the MQTT communication and messages exchanges with clients and an MQTT client for sending and receiving messages against an MQTT broker.
  • RabbitMQ ★38 - A RabbitMQ client (AMQP 0.9.1).
  • kafka ★27 ⏳2Y - Kafka client for consuming and producing messages.
  • Kafka Service ★19 - Kafka producer and consumer with retry logic.
  • SaltStack ★2 ⏳1Y - A bi-directional bridge between the SaltStack event system and the Vert.x event bus.
  • ZeroMQ ★5 ⏳2Y - ZeroMQ Event Bus bridge.
  • MQTT Broker ★137 - MQTT Broker (MQTT ver. 3.1.1 and 3.1 compliant).
  • Azure ServiceBus ★0 - Azure ServiceBus producer and consumer (fully async, doesn’t use Microsoft Azure SDK).
  • AMQP 1.0 - Kafka bridge - Bridge for sending/receiving messages to/from Apache Kafka using the AMQP 1.0 protocol.
  • Vertx Kafka Client ★26 - Apache Kafka client for reading and sending messages from/to an Apache Kafka cluster.
• JavaEE
  • JCA adaptor ★10 - Java Connector Architecture Adaptor for the Vert.x event bus.
  • Weld ★39 - Brings the CDI programming model into the Vert.x ecosystem (register CDI observer methods as Vert.x message consumers, CDI-powered Verticles, define routes in a declarative way, etc.).
• Meteor
  • Meteor ★18 - Meteor integration support through Vert.x event bus.
• Metrics
  • Hawkular metrics ★5 ⏳2Y - Hawkular implementation of the Vert.x Metrics SPI.
  • DropWizard metrics ★23 - Metrics implementation using DropWizard metrics.
  • OpenTsDb Metrics ★9 ⏳2Y - OpenTsDb metrics client for Vert.x.
  • Bosun Monitoring ★3 ⏳2Y - Bosun client library for Vert.x.
• Netflix - Hystrix
  • Hystrix Metrics Stream - Emits metrics for Hystrix Dashboard from a Vertx application with Hystrix ★13885.
• Dart
  • Vert.x Dart SockJS - Dart integration for Vert.x SockJS bridge and plain SockJS with use of dart:js.
• Push Notifications
  • Onesignal ★9 - Send push notifications to (mobile/web) apps from your Vertx application with OneSignal.

Middleware

• Apache Camel - Apache Camel component for bridging Camel with the Vert.x event bus.
• Gateleen ★47 - Middleware library based on Vert.x to build advanced JSON/REST communication servers.
• Gravitee.io - An OSS API Platform including API Gateway based on Vert.x core and other modules.

Language Support

Programming language support for Vert.x

• Ceylon ★13 - Ceylon support.
• Groovy ★12 - Groovy support.
• Java ★7962 - Vert.x main repository (including the Java API).
• JavaScript ★22 - JavaScript support.
• Python ★6 ⏳2Y - Python support.
• Ruby ★8 - Ruby support.
• Scala ★64 - - Scala support.
• Kotlin - - Kotlin support.
• TypeScript ★47 ⏳1Y - TypeScript support.

Language extensions

• Grooveex - Syntactic sugar + utilities (DSL builders, etc.) on top of vertx-lang-groovy ★12.

Reactive

• Reactive Streams ★38 - Vert.x Reactive Streams.
• Reactive Extensions ★98 - Vert.x Reactive Extensions.
• vertx-util ★17 ⏳2Y - Light weight promises & latches for Vert.x.
• QBit ★621 - Async typed actor-like lib that runs easily in Vert.x Async Callbacks. Callback management.
• VxRifa - Utility library for Vert.X that allows using strong-typed interfaces in communication through EventBus.

Sync Thread Non Block

• Sync ★63 - Synchronous but non-OS-thread-blocking verticles.

Vert.x Event Bus Clients

Clients to connect applications to the Vert.x event bus

• JavaScript - JavaScript event bus client.
• C++11 ★9 ⏳1Y - C++11 event bus client.
• Java ★14 ⏳2Y - Java implementation of vertxbus.js.
• Java ★14 - Java and Android Event Bus Client.
• CLI ★2 ⏳1Y - Command-line binary client for Vert.x event bus - pipe in JSON, emit JSON.
• Swift - Event bus client for Apple’s Swift using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• Python - Event bus client for Python using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• C# - Event bus client for C# using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• C - Event bus client for C99 using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• Go- Event bus client for Go-lang using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• Smalltalk- Event bus client for Pharo Smalltalk using the TCP-based protocol ★24.
• Java - Event bus support in JavaScript through Java code.

Cluster Managers

Implementations of the Vert.x cluster manager SPI

• Hazelcast Cluster Manager ★36 - Hazelcast cluster manager.
• Ignite Cluster Manager ★22 - Ignite cluster manager.
• JGroups Cluster Manager ★5 - JGroups cluster manager.
• Zookeeper Cluster Manager ★44 - Zookeeper cluster manager.
• Atomix Cluster Manager ★18 - An Atomix based cluster manager implementation for Vert.x 3.
• Infinispan Cluster Manager ★8 - Infinispan cluster manager.

Cloud Support

• OpenShift DIY cartridge ★1 ⏳1Y - OpenShift DIY Cartridge using Vert.x.
• OpenShift Vert.x cartridge ★21 - OpenShift Vert.x Cartridge using Vert.x.
• S3 ★14 - A fully functional Vert.x client for S3.

Docker

• Docker images - Docker images for Vert.x.

Microservices

• Service Discovery ★60 - Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Circuit Breaker ★31 - Vert.x Circuit Breaker.
• Service Discovery - Consul ★60 - Consul extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Docker links ★60 - Docker extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Kubernetes ★60 - Kubernetes extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Redis backend ★60 - Redis storage backend for Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Vert.x GraphQL Service Discovery ★29 - GraphQL service discovery and querying for your Vert.x microservices.
• HTTP Request Multiplexer - Kalfor ★6 ⏳1Y - Combine multiple HTTP GET requests into a single POST. A dead simple alternative to Facebook’s GraphQL and Netflix’s Falcor.
• Resilience4j ★894 - Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming. Resilience4j provides modules for Circuit Breaking, Rate Limiting, Bulkheading, Automatic retrying, Response caching and Metric measuring.

Search Engines

• Vert.x Elasticsearch Service - Vert.x 3 Elasticsearch service with event bus proxying.
• Vert.x Elasticsearch Service (redesign) - Vert.x 3 Elasticsearch service with event bus proxying. Redesign of the Vert.x Elasticsearch Service. Heavy usage of DTOs over eventbus and no more JsonObjects. Added support for ES plugins.
• Vert.x Solr Service - Vert.x 3 Solr service with event bus proxying.

Service Factory

• Service Factory ★16 - Vert.x Service Factory.
• Maven Service Factory ★9 - Maven Vert.x Service Factory.
• HTTP Service Factory ★7 - Vert.x HTTP Service Factory.
• Node.js Service Factory ★3 ⏳2Y - Vert.x Node.js Service Factory.
• Eclipse SISU Service Factories ★2 ⏳1Y - Vert.x integration with Eclipse SISU DI container offering alternatives for vertx-service-factory and vertx-maven-service-factory.

Config

• Vertx Config AWS SSM Store ★0 - A config store implementation for retrieving configuration values from the AWS EC2 SSM Parameter Store.
• Vert.x Boot ★10 - Deploying verticles from a HOCON configuration.

Dependency Injection

• Vert.x Guice - Vert.x verticle factory for Guice dependency injection.
• Vert.x HK2 - Vert.x verticle factory for HK2 dependency injection.
• Spring Vert.x Extension ★38 - Vert.x verticle factory for Spring DI injection.
• Vert.x Beans ★11 ⏳1Y - Inject Vert.x objects as beans into your Spring application.
• QBit ★621 - QBit works with Spring DI and Spring Boot (and of course Vertx). Allows you to use QBit, Vertx, Spring DI and Spring Boot in the same application.
• Vert.x Eclipse SISU ★2 ⏳1Y - Vert.x integration with Eclipse SISU DI container.
• Vert.x Spring Verticle Factory ★2 - A Vert.x Verticle Factory that makes use of Spring to obtain and configure Verticles.

Testing

• Vert.x Unit ★17 - Async polyglot unit testing for Vert.x.

Development Tools

• Vert.x Hot ★39 ⏳2Y - A Maven plugin for the hot-deploy of Maven Vert.x projects.
• slush-vertx - A template driven Vert.x project generator for different languages and build tools.
• Vert.x for Visual Studio Code ★1 ⏳1Y - A Visual Studio Code (polyglot) plugin for Vert.x. Also available from the Marketplace.
• Vert.x Starter - A browser-based project starter and project templates for Vert.x applications.
• Vert.x LiveReload ★6 - A simple livereload server for Vert.x applications.

Miscellaneous

• Vert.x Child Process - Spawn child process from Vert.x.
• vertx-redisques ★10 - A highly scalable redis-persistent queuing system for Vert.x.
• Simple File Server ★37 - An OpenStack Swift compatible distributed object storage server that can serve and securely store billions of large and small files using minimal resources implemented using Vert.x.
• Vert.x Boot ★10 - Deploying verticles from a HOCON configuration.
• GDH ★30 - Generalized Diffie-Hellman key exchange Java library built on top of Vert.x.

Distribution

• Vert.x Stack ★84 - Vert.x + the endorsed modules.

Examples

• Vert.x blueprint - Microservice application ★333 - The official Vert.x blueprint showing how to build a complex microservice application.
• Vert.x blueprint - Job Queue - The official Vert.x blueprint showing how to build a distributed job processing application.
• Vert.x blueprint - TODO backend ★96 - The official Vert.x blueprint showing how to build a backend for a TODO application.
• Vert.x examples ★1555 - The official Vert.x examples including web examples, how to use the official database clients, etc.
• Vert.x feeds ★107 - Example of an RSS aggregator built using Vert.x, Gradle, MongoDB, Redis, Handlebars templates, AngularJS, the event bus and SockJS.
• Vert.x Markdown service - Example on how to use service-proxy ★45 with Gradle.
• Example using event bus and service proxies to connect vertx and node ★36 ⏳2Y - Step by step example with wiki description showing how to connect Vert.x and Node using event bus and service proxies.
• Vert.x Todo-Backend implementation ★3 ⏳2Y - Pure Java 8 implementation of the Todo MVC backend. Uses a Vert.x LocalMap for storage.
• Kotlin Todo-Backend implementation ★7 ⏳2Y - Kotlin implementation of the Todo MVC backend.
• Scala Todo-Backend implementation ★1 ⏳1Y - Scala implementation of the Todo MVC backend.
• Grooveex Todo-Backend implementation ★0 ⏳2Y - Todo MVC backend implementation with Vert.x + Groovy + some syntactic sugar + DSL routing facilities.
• Vert.x Gradle Starter ★4 ⏳1Y - Java 8 starter application with example of using Vert.x with Gradle build system, profiles configuration and SLF4J.
• Vert.x Gentics Mesh Example ★9 - Example on how to build a template-based web server with Gentics Mesh and handlebars.
• HTTP/2 showcase ★7 ⏳1Y - A simple demo, showing how HTTP/2 can drastically improve user experience when a huge latency is involved.
• Vert.x Music Store ★32 - An example application on how to build Vert.x applications with RxJava.
• Crabzilla ★19 - Yet another Event Sourcing experiment. A project exploring Vert.x to develop Event Sourcing / CQRS applications.
• Vert.x PostgreSQL Starter ★8 - A starter to build a monolithic CRUD RESTful Web Service with Vert.x stack and PostgreSQL.
• Cloud Foundry ★0 - An example Vert.x for deploying to a Cloud Foundry service provider.

Deployment

• Vert.x Deploy Application ★38 - (Seamless) deploy to AWS based Vert.x application clusters.

Utilities

• Chime ★17 - Time scheduler working on Vert.x event bus allowing for scheduling with cron-style and interval timers.
• Vert.x Cron ★24 - Schedule events with cron specifications. Has event bus and Observable versions.
• Vert.x POJO config ★2 ⏳2Y - Allows for mapping between standard JSON configuration and a (type-safe) configuration Java bean. Also allows the configuration bean to be validated through JSR 303.
• Vert.x Async ★13 - Portage of caolan/async nodejs module to Vert.x framework that provides helpers methods for common async patterns.
• Vert.x JOLT ★3 - JSON to JSON transformation tool based on the original bazaarvoice JOLT project. Helpful to transform different json structure into an expected json format.
• Vert.x Dependent Verticle Deployer ★2 - A Vert.x Verticle intended to deploy verticles and their dependent verticles.
• Vert.x Dataloader ★41 - Java port of Facebook Dataloader for Vert.x. Efficient batching and caching for your data layer.
• Vert.x Util ★1 - A collection of Vert.x utility methods.
• Vert.x Web Accesslog ★12 - Just a simple handler to be used in Vert.x Web to generate access logs.
• Vert.x GraphQL Utils - A route handler and Vert.x compatible interfaces to handle GraphQL queries in Vert.x and Vert.x Web.

Community

• User Group - Discuss all user issues related to using Vert.x.
• Developer Group - A group for Vert.x core developers and contributors.
• IRC channel - This is our day-to-day office: #vertx on freenode.net.
• Issues - Vert.x core issue tracker.
• Wiki - Contains useful information about Vert.x.
• Learning Materials - A list of articles and presentations on Vert.x.
• Blog - The official Vert.x blog containing many tutorials and other information.
• 2017 Events - A list of 2017 Vert.x talks and presentations.

Social events / Meetups

• Amsterdam/The Netherlands
• Paris

Front-End

• VertxUI ★81 - A pure Java front-end toolkit with descriptive fluent views-on-models, POJO traffic, JUnit testing on the virtual DOM or mixed-language on a real DOM, and more.

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