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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 August 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of npm is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 39.9%, down from 42.6% 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.

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

Pros

"The product's most valuable feature is dependency installation."
"The most valuable feature of NPM is to trigger APMs."
"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 solution is scalable."
"It's great because it simplifies development. Together with MyBatis they make a beautiful pair for Java development."
"Spring Boot's configuration is easy, and it has an out-of-the-box deployment."
"The setup is straightforward."
"This is a stable solution that is being used in the HR space."
"The solution is easy to use; I primarily employ integrated templates such as the REST template."
"Features that help with monitoring and tracking network calls between several micro services."
"This is a pretty light solution. It's not too heavy."
"The simplicity is excellent."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"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 library could be updated."
"The product should be compatible with various programming languages, including both native and upcoming languages."
"Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement."
"This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions."
"Perhaps an even lighter-weight, leaner version could be made available, to compete with alternative solutions, such as NodeJS."
"The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
"The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices."
"If you want to have multiple integrations, the setup phase will become complex."
"When the dependencies within those starter packages clash, mismatch or have a hazard, it is hard to solve the issue."
"The product could be improved by supporting and integrating Hadoop."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the open-source version, so it is free."
"It's an open-source solution, and there are no hidden fees."
"The licensing cost is around one hundred and fifty dollars on a quarterly basis."
"NPM is an open-source solution."
"It's an open-source solution."
"Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free."
"Spring Boot is open source. It's a free tool and free framework."
"Spring Boot is open source."
"It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
"The solution is free."
"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"The solution is an open-source tool."
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Government
6%
 

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