Grace vs Spring Boot

Grace and Spring Boot frameworks are excellent for building web applications, but their use depends on what you want. Generally, Grace framework may be advantageous in full-stack and monolithic applications, but Spring Boot is preferred for developing complex and microservice applications.

Grace is not a replacement for Spring Boot, it is built on top of Spring Boot. It provides its' own Spring Boot Starters - Grace Boot, as an AutoConfiguration, it will load all other modules and plugins. Grace follows good modular design, and these modules can be used independently in Spring Boot applications.

Grace has better developer productivity than Spring Boot. Because it follows the convention over the configuration principle, it minimizes code requirements. This enhances productivity and fosters faster app development. The framework creates faster and more functional prototypes than Spring Boot due to its simple code generation like scaffolding and CoC.

Grace has better support Groovy than Spring Boot. Grace fully embraces Groovy to enable many features that would not be possible using Java alone, including flexible and powerful Plug-in architecture and a rich Plugin ecosystem and many built-in Dynamic Module types, many DSLs, AST Transformations, Trait-based solutions, and much more.

Grace provides a powerful CLI that allows you to quickly create new projects of many different types using Application Profiles and Templates and get started easily. These are all extensible and easy to customize, you can create your own Profiles, Templates, and Commands to meet any of your needs.

The learning curve for Grace is moderate and more straightforward than Spring Boot due to its emphasis on convention and simplicity.