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Spring MVC versus Spring WebFlux

Spring MVC has been part of the Spring Framework since version 2, and since then, has been a de facto standard when developing web-based applications with Spring Framework. To support Reactive Programming, Spring has introduced the WebFlux module. Therefore, it is important to understand the similarities and differences between Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux.

The Spring team has done it the hard way and kept the WebFlux syntax similar to the Spring MVC, but under the hood it has completely new technology. One of the prime differences between these two modules is the mechanism by which they handle the request. Spring MVC is based on a pure servlet API and works with a thread pool. This means that, every request ...