I'm taking a look at javalin but I'd like to hear some other opinions

I’ve had a great experience with Javalin. It is a bit bare bones, but overall was really nice to use.

@jacobmoncur did you use any abstraction when interacting with the DB? As far as I can tell javalin doesn't come packaged with any of that

You are right it doesn’t come packaged with those types of tools, which is why I liked using it. I got to pick the best libraries for the job. I used Exposed (https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed) for my DB connection stuff. It seems like it is still in development but I like the direction it is going.

I think im going with Javalin + ReQuery solely because the docs seems really good on javalin