Awesome Groovy

Curated list of awesome groovy libraries, frameworks and resources. Inspired by many other awesome-* repositories.

• Awesome Groovy
  • Build Tools, Setup and CI
  • Concurrency
  • Database
  • Desktop App Frameworks
  • HTTP
  • IDE and Editor Support
  • Testing
  • Code analysis
  • Web Frameworks
  • Transpilers
  • Static Web
  • Language Utilities
  • File System Utilities
  • File Format DSL
  • Scripting Tools
  • Rule Engines
• Resources
• Contributing
• Credits

Build tools, setup and CI

• Gradle - A powerful build system for the JVM
• GMavenPlus - A rewrite of GMaven, a Maven plugin for Groovy
• SDKMAN - The Software Development Kit Manager (Previously known as GVM)
• skeletal - A simple project creation tool that uses packaged templates (successor of Lazybones)
• Lazybones - A simple project creation tool that uses packaged project templates.
• Jenkins job-dsl-plugin - A Groovy DSL for Jenkins Jobs
• travis-groovy - execute groovy scripts on travis-ci
• Android Groovy Shell - code and execute groovy scripts directly on your smartphone

IDE and Editor Support

• IntelliJ IDEA - The Most Intelligent IDE for the Java Platform
• Groovy Grails Tool Suite - Eclipse-based IDE optimized for developing, debugging and executing Groovy and Grails applications
• Groovy Web Console - The online Groovy console
• LightTable Plugin - LightTable Support
• SpaceVim - SpaceVim lang#groovy layer
• Sublime Text 2/3 - Run groovy scripts from Sublime Text

Web Frameworks

• Grails - A powerful web application framework based on the Groovy language
• Micronaut - A brand new microservices framework created by the Grails team
• Spring-Boot - Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that can you can "just run". Use Groovy as your coding language.
• Gaelyk - A lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java
• Glide - Create awesome apps on Google App Engine in a snap
• Ratpack - A toolkit for JVM web applications
• gServ - A Groovy toolkit for creating SPAs and REST based micro-services without the need for a container (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.).

Database

• GORM - Grails ORM, but can be used stand-alone without Grails
• Gmongo - A Groovy wrapper to the mongodb Java driver
• Gstorm - A simple ORM for simple databases and CSV files to be used in groovy scripts
• Tayra - Incremental backup tool for MongoDB
• Groovy-liquibase - Yet Another Groovy DSL for Liquibase
• Effigy - Groovy annotation-driven JDBC row mapping framework (abandoned)
• elasticsearch-groovy - Elasticsearch Groovy client

Rich Application

• Griffon - Griffon is an application framework for developing desktop applications in the JVM
• GroovyFx - GroovyFX provides a Groovy binding for JavaFX 2.0.

HTTP

• Http-Builder - HTTPBuilder is the easiest way to manipulate HTTP-based resources from the JVM
• HTTP Builder NG - HTTP Builder NG is a modern Groovy DSL for making http requests.
• HTTP Builder NG Gradle Plugin - Gradle plugin providing HTTP Builder NG support in a Gradle build configuration.
• AsyncRestClient - Combine the power of RESTClient with RxGroovy for async http calls