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Spring Boot vs npm comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

npm
Ranking in Java Frameworks
6th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of npm is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 40.1%, down from 42.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Puneeth Babu - PeerSpot reviewer
Is scalable, easily approachable, stable, and easy to set up
There are a lot of features that are very fast in npm, even though it was developed 10 or 12 years back. It comes with a bundle or library, so your development time will radically reduce to half. If you need to spin up a new server or you need to have a developer at minimum cost, it can be easily achieved within npm. Overall, I give npm a nine out of ten.
RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable
Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is scalable."
"The reversal build, gendered build, migrated PCA, and CT features are excellent."
"It's an open-source setting that's very scalable and easily approachable. I like that you can plug in many features to my product."
"The product's most valuable feature is dependency installation."
"The most valuable feature of NPM is to trigger APMs."
"It is stable."
"It's very easy to get started. It's very quick. Most of the configurations are already available. So not much time is spent on setting up things. One can quickly set up and then get rolling."
"The Spring Cloud Gateway, Load Balancer are the valuable features. Apart from them, handling a sync call, then multiple service communication through field clients are also useful features."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The configuration setup in Spring Boot is pretty simplified compared to Hibernate ORM."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is all the interactions to various applications happen using Spring Boot."
"Spring Boot's configuration is easy, and it has an out-of-the-box deployment."
"I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products."
 

Cons

"Some of the libraries that we try to use in npm have issues with security. Also, because it's an open-source solution, I think there are lots of challenges with security. So, the security layer could be improved."
"The product should be compatible with various programming languages, including both native and upcoming languages."
"I would like to see compatible versions, and what new features they will be providing. If it is a useful feature I can merge it. If it is not a usable feature, then I can ignore the newer version."
"The library could be updated."
"NPM can improve the package manager. For the packages we download for our APM studio to trigger our APM driver, it would benefit if we could have the latest version of NuGet Package Manager within the package manager control. For example, Visual Studio would be good. Then it would be easy for us to get the package manager from there instead of Googling it out and matching it with the current version. It would be less time-consuming for us."
"If you want to create large microservices applications, you need to connect several applications and services to each other. It is very complicated, and Spring Boot does not have an integrated solution for it."
"communicationbetween different services from the third party layers or with the legacy applications needs to improve."
"We have specific algorithms for our Load Balancer or API gateway. So those things, if they could make it more precise, that would be beneficial. Sometimes when we are under pressure or any new person who looks into that stuff, we'll get confused or scared because of some difficulties in understanding Which algorithm needs to be used to implement a Load Balancer. When when we Yeah. Because when we say circuit breaker, we need to use it, and then the user gets a blank circuit breaker. This means we are saying the circuit breaker needs to be moved, and then that circuit breaker needs to be elaborated more. What type of algorithm should I do, and what exactly do I need to get done so that this circuit breaker can help me to resolve my issue? Because, you know, because if you go for the circuit breaker, it will ask to open the new tab, you know, since it will check. If the service is not responding, it will wait and go for another connection. So in similar words, if they can explain it a bit more, that will be helpful. Everyone could do their own Google stuff, and they will get it, but they need help understanding how this could help them to resolve the issue. It will be good if Spring Boot provides information about real-time use cases."
"The solution could improve its flexibility."
"I would like to see more integration in this solution."
"They should integrate the solution with more AI and machine learning platforms."
"Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement."
"The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the open-source version, so it is free."
"NPM is an open-source solution."
"The licensing cost is around one hundred and fifty dollars on a quarterly basis."
"It's an open-source solution, and there are no hidden fees."
"Spring Boot is open source."
"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"It's an open-source solution."
"The solution is an open-source tool."
"Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free."
"Spring Boot is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NPM?
The product's most valuable feature is dependency installation.
What needs improvement with NPM?
The product should be compatible with various programming languages, including both native and upcoming languages. There should be an extension for C++ language as many customers prefer it for the ...
What is your primary use case for NPM?
We use the product as a packet manager for orchestration and dashboard management. It helps in running the development server.
What do you like most about Spring Boot?
1. Open Source2. Excellent Community Support -- Widely used across different projects -- so your search for answers would be easy and almost certain.3. Extendable Stack with a wide array of availab...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?
Springboot is a Java-based solution that is very popular and easy to use. You can use it to build applications quickly and confidently. Springboot has a very large, helpful learning community, whic...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Jakarta EE?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Spring Boot or Jakarta EE application creation software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Spring Boot. Spring Boot offe...
 

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