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Awesome Groovy

A curated list of awesome groovy libraries, frameworks and resources

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Build tools, setup and CI

Gradle

A powerful build system for the JVM

In 4 listsDetails

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

In 2 lists

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

In 2 lists

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

In 3 lists

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

Groovy-wslite

Lightweight SOAP and REST webservice clients for Groovy

Hyperpoet

Easy-to-use and customizable HTTP client for Groovy

Testing

Spock

The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework.

In 2 lists

Geb

Very Groovy Browser Automation

Betamax

Betamax is a tool for mocking external HTTP resources such as web services and REST APIs in your tests.

HTTP Mock Server

HTTP Mock Server allows to mock HTTP request using groovy closures.

Ersatz Mock Server

A simple and expressive simulated HTTP server for testing client code with configurable responses.

Dru

Data Reconstruction Utility loads data from external sources JSON, YML for easy testing GORM, DynamoDB or just plain POJOs.

Gru

Groovy HTTP Testing Framework for running integration and semi-ingetration tests for any HTTP backend with native unit test support for Grails and Spring MVC.

Concurrency

GPars

The GPars concurrency and parallelism framework for the JVM

RxGroovy

RxJava bindings for Groovy

Vertx

Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance application platform for the JVM

Code Analysis

CodeNarc

Static analysis tool for Groovy

Sonar-Groovy

SonarQube Groovy plugin

Transpilers

Grooscript

Converts your Groovy code to Javascript

Static Web

Grain

Static Web Site Building Framework For Groovy

In 2 lists

Gaiden

Gaiden is a tool that makes it easy to create documentation with Markdown.

In 2 lists

Language Utilities

Functionalgroovy

Functional programming in Groovy

Groovy-stream

A collection of classes to give a fluent builder for Streams (Lazy Groovy Generators)

Flipside

Simple Groovy options library

groovy-common-extensions

Lets you add things commonly useful to the Groovy language via the extension system

groovy-extra-list-behaviour

Adds extra methods to Lists via the extension system

GPerfUtils

Groovy-based tools verifying performance of your code

gprof

The profiling module for Groovy

gbench

The benchmarking module for Groovy

Fuzzy-CSV

Simple lightweight data processing library, useful for shaping/processing your tabular data before its consumed by another service or library.

Data Processing

Nextflow

Groovy DSL for Data-driven computational pipelines

In 3 lists

File System Utilities

Groovy-Vfs

A DSL for Groovy on top of Apache VFS2

Directree

A Simple DSL to create Directory Tree with Text Files

DSLs

document-builder

A document builder for Groovy for PDF or Word documents.

spreadsheet-builder

Spreadsheet builder provides convenient way how to create MS Excel OfficeOpenXML Documents (XSLX)

GroovyCSV

A simple CSV parsing library for groovy

Groogle

A Groovy DSL written to use Google services APIs.

Scripting Tools

EasyDokkaPlugin

Gradle script plugin to generate documentation by Dokka documentation engine for Java and Kotlin

GradleMavenPush

Gradle script plugin to upload Gradle Artifacts to Maven repositories

picocli

Parser library and framework for CLI. Usage help with ANSI colors. Autocomplete. Nested subcommands and more.

In 3 lists

sshoogr

DSL library for working with remote servers through SSH.

Rule Engines

grules

rule engine for data preprocessing

n-cube

a Rules Engine, Decision Table, Decision Tree, Templating Engine, and Enterprise Spreadsheet, built as a hyper-space.

Official Resources

The official groovy home

Groovy's new home

In 2 lists

Groovy's source

Groovy's source code mirrored on Github

In 2 lists

Groovy mailing lists

Note the new mailing list

Official Documentation

the definitive source of groovy documentation

Try Groovy in Browser

Groovy Web Console

Groovy Playground

Groovy Code Examples

MrHaKi's Goodness

Look out for entries titled "Groovy Goodness" , "Grails Goodness", Gradle Goodness"

PLEAC Groovy

Groovy is one of the 3 languages out of 32, having completed 100% of PLEAC examples.

Staying up to date

Groovy Calamari

Weekly curated publication about the Groovy Ecosystem

Groovy Weekly

Groovy weekly newsletter

Grails Diary

Particulary useful for Grails developers

Groovy Podcast

Ken Kousen and Baruch Sadogursky discuss news and insight from the Groovy ecosystem.

Interactive Learning

Groovy-Koans

Collection of small exercises in the form of unit tests

Blogs of core committer

Guillaume Laforge's blog

Cédric Champeau's blog

Jochen Theodorou's blog

Grails Team blog

Conferences

Community Over Code

have a Groovy Track

Greachconf

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GR8Conf Europe

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GR8Conf USA

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