Ask HN: What's the best modern Java web app stack and tooling?

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Background: for the past few years I've been mostly Ruby on Rails, some iOS, and some JS/React. Would like to start building some simple web apps with Java–most likely with React on the frontend.

What's the best modern stack for this? What are the equivalents of rbenv, gems/bundler, Sinatra, Rails, and AR/sequel in Java-land?

TIA!

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You’re going to be disappointed. That said we do a lot of Spring Boot with react front end and it works. I don’t like Java very much and the docs are not as good as rails and the surface area is huge but... wait why do you want to write Java again? Lot of people do Kotlin + Spring Boot when they can.

2 reasons: (1) we're the only rails team in a large company that is mostly java; so I'd like to get better. (2) recently went back to school part-time and we've been doing java projects but with no tooling, frameworks or external libs ... so I'm kinda curious if it gets nicer.

You might want to look into Dropwizard: http://www.dropwizard.io/1.2.2/docs/

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