micronaut-eval

Me testing out micronaut 1.2.3 as a alternative to Spring Boot for lightweight services.

The focus is to evaluate if ...

1. I can setup a modern microservice with typical requirements.
2. I can solve the typical problems that I already have a solution for in Spring Boot.

Requirements

• bootstrap new projects easily
  • install mn cli, e.g. with skdman; then run mn create-app your-app-name
• build with Maven
  • --build maven flag for mn
• json support
  • works out-of-the-box with Jackson
• logging
  • works out-of-the-box with logback
• assertj assertions
  • newest version works
• lombok
• more requirements tbd

Problems

• integration tests for rest endpoints (mockMvc style)
  • minimal solution with micronaut HttpClient (out-of-the-box)
  • use rest-assured without mockmvc? (provides a convenient DSL & jsonpath matching but has a hamcrest dependency)
  • both solutions require you to handle rollback/cleanup after calling endpoints that write data
• more problems tbd