Awesome Vert.x

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

If you want your component to appear here send a pull request to this repository to add it.

Please note that we can't vouch for the stability or production-worthiness of everything on this list unless it has the icon next to it. This icon means the component is part of the official Vert.x stack.

For Vert.x version 2 check this page.

Contents

• 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
• Dependency Injection
• Testing
• Development Tools
• Miscellaneous
• Distribution
• Examples
• Deployment
• Utilities

Web Frameworks

• Vert.x Web - Full featured web toolkit for Vert.x.
• Vert.x Jersey - Create JAX-RS Jersey resources in Vert.x.
• Vert.x Nubes - Provides an annotation layer on top of Vert.x Web.
• Kovert - Invisible REST framework for Kotlin + Vert.x Web.
• RestVertx - Easily build HTTP services in Vert.x using Java.
• Handlers - Open web framework for Vert.x.
• QBit - REST and WebSocket method call marshaling and reactive library.
• vertx-rest-storage - Persistence for REST resources in the filesystem or a redis database.
• Jubilee - A rack compatible Ruby HTTP server built on Vert.x 3.
• katharsis-vertx - JSONAPI implementation for Vert.x 3.

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 - Vert.x authentication/authorisation implemented using pac4j.

Database Clients

Clients for connecting to databases

• Relational Databases

  • JDBC - Asynchronous interface around a JDBC datasource.
  • MySQL - Asynchronous client for MySQL.
  • PostgreSQL - Asynchronous client for PostgreSQL.
  • database - Client for Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, HyperSQL, etc. designed for security, correctness, and ease of use.

• NoSQL Databases

  • MongoDB - An asynchronous client for interacting with a MongoDB database.
  • Redis - Asynchronous API to interact with Redis.
  • Cassandra - Asynchronous API to interact with Cassandra and Cassandra Mapping.
  • OrientDB - Non-blocking OrientDB server integration.
  • MarkLogic - Asynchronous client for Marklogic Database Server.

• vertx-pojo-mapper - Non-blocking POJO mapping for MySQL and MongoDB.

Integration

• Server-Sent Events

  • jEaSSE - Java Easy SSE. A simple, lightweight implementation of SSE.

• Mail

  • SMTP - Async SMTP client.
  • [vertx-smtp-server] (https://github.com/cinterloper/vertx-smtp-server) - SMTP server bridging to EventBus.

• REST

  • Vertx REST Client - A REST client for vertx with support for RxJava and request caching.

• Messaging

  • AMQP 1.0 - Interact with AMQP 1.0 servers using the Vert.x Producer and Consumer APIs.
  • RabbitMQ - A RabbitMQ client (AMQP 0.9.1).
  • kafka - Kafka client for consuming and producing messages.
  • Kafka Service - Kafka producer and consumer with retry logic.
  • [SaltStack] (https://github.com/cinterloper/vertx-salt) - A bi-directional bridge between the SaltStack event system and the Vert.x event bus.
  • ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ Event Bus bridge.
  • MQTT Broker - MQTT Broker (MQTT ver. 3.1.1 and 3.1 compliant).
  • Azure ServiceBus - Azure ServiceBus producer and consumer (fully async, doesn't use Microsoft Azure SDK).

• JavaEE

  • JCA adaptor - Java Connector Architecture Adaptor for the Vert.x event bus.
  • Weld - 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 - Meteor integration support through Vert.x event bus.

• Metrics

  • Hawkular metrics - Hawkular implementation of the Vert.x Metrics SPI.
  • DropWizard metrics - Metrics implementation using DropWizard metrics.
  • OpenTsDb Metrics - OpenTsDb metrics client for Vert.x.
  • Bosun Monitoring - Bosun client library for Vert.x.

• Netflix - Hystrix

  • Hystrix Metrics Stream - Emits metrics for Hystrix Dashboard from a Vertx application with Hystrix.

• Dart

  • Vert.x Dart SockJS - Dart integration for Vert.x SockJS bridge and plain SockJS with use of dart:js.

Middleware

• Gateleen - Middleware library based on Vert.x to build advanced JSON/REST communication servers

Language Support

Programming language support for Vert.x

• Ceylon - Ceylon support.
• Groovy - Groovy support.
• Java - Vert.x main repository (including the Java API).
• JavaScript - JavaScript support.
• Python - Python support.
• Ruby - Ruby support.
• Scala - Scala support.
• TypeScript - TypeScript support.
• Kotlin - Kotlin support.

Language extensions

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

Reactive

• Reactive Streams - Vert.x Reactive Streams.
• Reactive Extensions - Vert.x Reactive Extensions.
• vertx-util - Light weight promises & latches for Vert.x.
• QBit - Async typed actor-like lib that runs easily in Vert.x Async Callbacks. Callback management.

Sync Thread Non Block

• Sync - 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 - C++11 event bus client.
• Java - Java implementation of vertxbus.js.
• Java - Java and Android Event Bus Client.
• CLI - Command-line binary client for Vert.x event bus - pipe in JSON, emit JSON.

Cluster Managers

Implementations of the Vert.x cluster manager SPI

• Hazelcast Cluster Manager - Hazelcast cluster manager.
• Ignite Cluster Manager - Ignite cluster manager.
• JGroups Cluster Manager - JGroups cluster manager.
• Zookeeper Cluster Manager - Zookeeper cluster manager.
• Atomix Cluster Manager - An Atomix based cluster manager implementation for Vert.x 3.

Cloud Support

• OpenShift DIY cartridge - OpenShift DIY Cartridge using Vert.x.
• OpenShift Vert.x cartridge - OpenShift Vert.x Cartridge using Vert.x.

Docker

• Docker images - Docker images for Vert.x.

Microservices

• Service Discovery - Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Circuit Breaker - Vert.x Circuit Breaker.
• Service Discovery - Consul - Consul extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Docker links - Docker extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Kubernetes - Kubernetes extension to Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Service Discovery - Redis backend - Redis storage backend for Vert.x Service Discovery.
• Vert.x GraphQL Service Discovery - GraphQL service discovery and querying for your Vert.x microservices.

Search Engines

• Vert.x Elasticsearch Service - Vert.x 3 Elasticsearch service with event bus proxying.
• Vert.x Solr Service - Vert.x 3 Solr service with event bus proxying.

Service Factory

• Service Factory - Vert.x Service Factory.
• Maven Service Factory - Maven Vert.x Service Factory.
• HTTP Service Factory - Vert.x HTTP Service Factory.
• Node.js Service Factory - Vert.x Node.js Service Factory.
• Eclipse SISU Service Factories - Vert.x integration with Eclipse SISU DI container offering alternatives for vertx-service-factory and vertx-maven-service-factory.

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 - Vert.x verticle factory for Spring DI injection.
• Vert.x Beans - Inject Vert.x objects as beans into your Spring application.
• QBit - 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 - Vert.x integration with Eclipse SISU DI container.

Testing

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

Development Tools

• Vert.x Hot - A Maven plugin for the hot-deploy of Maven Vert.x projects.

Miscellaneous

• Vert.x Child Process - Spawn child process from Vert.x.
• vertx-redisques - A highly scalable redis-persistent queuing system for Vert.x.

Distribution

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

Examples

• Vert.x examples - The official Vert.x examples including web examples, how to use the official database clients, etc.
• Vert.x feeds - 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 with Gradle.
• Example using event bus and service proxies to connect vertx and node - Step by step example with wiki description showing how to connect Vert.x and Node using event bus and service proxies.

Deployment

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

Utilities

• Chime - Time scheduler working on Vert.x event bus allowing for scheduling with cron-style and interval timers.
• Vert.x Cron - Schedule events with cron specifications. Has event bus and Observable versions.
• Vert.x POJO config - 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 - Portage of caolan/async nodejs module to Vert.x framework that provides helpers methods for common async patterns.

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.

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