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Backend Web Frameworks

Frameworks for server-side web application development, like Django or Express.js.

153 projects

172,418 contributors

$560M

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-enabled, Internet-connected applications. It enables developers to create web apps, APIs, microservices, and real-time web applications that can run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Contributors

21,008

Organizations

2,969

Software value

$79M

The Symfony PHP Framework

Symfony is a PHP web application framework designed for building robust, scalable, and maintainable web applications using reusable components and a structured MVC architecture. It’s widely used for enterprise-level projects and forms the foundation of many other PHP platforms, including Laravel and Drupal.

Contributors

13,095

Organizations

3,145

Software value

$65M

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is a Java-based framework that simplifies the development of standalone, production-grade Spring applications by providing convention over configuration and embedded servers. It eliminates much of the boilerplate setup required by traditional Spring applications, enabling faster development and easier deployment.

Contributors

12,746

Organizations

1,981

Software value

$23M

Express

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

Contributors

12,099

Organizations

2,889

Software value

$3.9M

FastAPI

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints. It provides automatic API documentation, data validation, authentication, and other features while maintaining high speed and developer-friendly ergonomics.

Contributors

9,957

Organizations

2,259

Software value

$7.3M

Django

Django is a high-level Python web framework that enables rapid development of secure and maintainable websites. It follows the model-template-views architectural pattern and includes a robust ORM, automatic admin interface, and comprehensive security features.

Contributors

9,185

Organizations

2,275

Software value

$21M

NestJS

NestJS is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications. It uses modern JavaScript/TypeScript and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming), while being heavily inspired by Angular's architecture.

Contributors

7,601

Organizations

1,897

Software value

$3.4M

Yii Framework 2

Yii Framework 2 is a high-performance, component-based PHP web application framework designed for building modern web applications. It provides extensive features for rapid application development, security, caching, and database abstraction.

Contributors

7,488

Organizations

878

Software value

$10M

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture.

Contributors

7,415

Organizations

1,712

Software value

$11M

Spring Framework

The Spring Framework is a lightweight, open-source Java framework that simplifies enterprise application development by providing comprehensive infrastructure support, including dependency injection, transaction management, and web development tools.

Contributors

7,107

Organizations

1,136

Software value

$36M

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java Project

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Contributors

6,766

Organizations

1,167

Software value

$64M

Gin Web Framework

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go that features a martini-like API with much better performance. It provides a robust set of features for building web applications and microservices, including middleware support, routing, parameter binding, and validation.

Contributors

4,896

Organizations

1,407

Software value

$665K

Play Framework

Play Framework is a high-productivity web application framework for Java and Scala that integrates components for modern web application development. It follows the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and emphasizes developer productivity, RESTful architecture, and reactive programming principles.

Contributors

4,665

Organizations

1,069

Software value

$5M

Flask

Flask is a lightweight and flexible web application framework for Python that allows developers to quickly build web applications and APIs. It provides the essential tools and libraries while maintaining simplicity and extensibility through a modular design.

Contributors

4,642

Organizations

1,353

Software value

$800K

Laravel

Laravel is a popular open-source PHP web application framework known for its elegant syntax, robust features, and developer-friendly tools. It provides a comprehensive ecosystem for building modern web applications with features like routing, authentication, caching, and database abstraction.

Contributors

4,200

Organizations

1,173

Software value

$38K

Frappe Framework

Frappe Framework is a full-featured web application framework built with Python and JavaScript that provides a complete suite of tools for building business applications. It includes features like ORM, forms, workflows, website generator, and REST APIs out of the box.

Contributors

3,617

Organizations

377

Software value

$11M

CakePHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications. It uses commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM, offering a flexible but robust structure for building both simple and complex systems.

Contributors

3,579

Organizations

547

Software value

$7.6M

Micronaut Framework

Micronaut is a modern JVM-based framework for building modular, easily testable microservices and serverless applications. It provides dependency injection, AOP, configuration management, and cloud-native features with fast startup time and reduced memory footprint.

Contributors

2,653

Organizations

492

Software value

$18M

API Platform Core

API Platform Core is a PHP framework for building hypermedia and GraphQL APIs. It allows developers to create modern, web APIs by automatically exposing entities as REST or GraphQL endpoints, with features like JSON-LD/Hydra support, content negotiation, validation, pagination, and filtering.

Contributors

2,652

Organizations

573

Software value

$6.5M

Tornado Web Server

Tornado is an open-source Python web framework and asynchronous networking library that uses non-blocking network I/O to scale to tens of thousands of open connections. It powers asynchronous web applications and services with its coroutine-based design.

Contributors

2,605

Organizations

793

Software value

$1.4M

Dropwizard

Dropwizard is a Java framework that helps developers quickly create production-ready RESTful web services by combining various stable Java libraries like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, and Hibernate into a lightweight package. It provides out-of-the-box support for configuration, application metrics, logging, and operational tasks.

Contributors

2,398

Organizations

549

Software value

$2.5M

Ktor

Ktor is an asynchronous web framework for building connected applications in Kotlin, enabling development of server-side and client-side applications. It provides a flexible, extensible architecture for creating web applications, APIs, and microservices with built-in support for coroutines.

Contributors

2,376

Organizations

594

Software value

$6.2M

Echo

Echo is a high-performance, extensible, minimalist web framework for Go that provides a robust set of features for building web applications and APIs, including routing, middleware support, data binding, validation, and static file serving

Contributors

2,321

Organizations

770

Software value

$800K

Werkzeug

Werkzeug is a comprehensive WSGI web application library that provides a collection of utilities for building Python web applications. It includes tools for URL routing, request/response objects, debugging, and other common web development tasks.

Contributors

2,237

Organizations

768

Software value

$1.1M

Fiber

Fiber is a high-performance, low memory footprint web framework written in Go that is inspired by Express.js. It provides a fast HTTP router and robust middleware support for building scalable web applications and APIs.

Contributors

2,067

Organizations

560

Software value

$2.8M

CodeIgniter 4

CodeIgniter 4 is a PHP web application framework that provides a rich set of libraries, helpers, and tools for building dynamic websites and applications. It features a small footprint, exceptional performance, and a simple, clear interface for accessing its extensive capabilities.

Contributors

1,741

Organizations

201

Software value

$6.8M

Jupyter Server

Jupyter Server is a sub-project of Project Jupyter.

Contributors

1,701

Organizations

353

Software value

$4.9M

Silverstripe Framework

Silverstripe Framework is an open-source PHP content management system (CMS) and Model-View-Controller (MVC) web application framework. It provides developers with tools for building and maintaining complex websites and web applications, featuring content management, templating, ORM, security controls, and extensible architecture through modules.

Contributors

1,637

Organizations

226

Software value

$6.3M

Http4s

Http4s is a typeful, functional, streaming HTTP library for Scala that provides a clean and idiomatic way to create HTTP clients and servers. It emphasizes type safety, composability, and integration with functional programming patterns.

Contributors

1,362

Organizations

305

Software value

$2.4M

Apache Grails

Apache Grails is a web application framework that uses the Groovy programming language and runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It follows the convention-over-configuration paradigm and is designed to increase developer productivity by providing features like scaffolding, Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), and dynamic reloading.

Contributors

1,076

Organizations

150

Software value

$18M

Jersey

Jersey is a RESTful Web Services framework that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a reference implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services specification. It extends the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to simplify development of RESTful web services and their clients in Java.

Contributors

969

Organizations

216

Software value

$14M

RESTEasy

RESTEasy is a JBoss/WildFly framework that provides support for building RESTful web services and applications using Jakarta RESTful Web Services (formerly JAX-RS). It enables developers to build HTTP-based applications that seamlessly deploy on JBoss/WildFly application servers.

Contributors

705

Organizations

159

Software value

$8.9M

Force

Force is Artsy's main web application and platform for discovering and collecting art. It powers artsy.net and provides features for browsing artworks, artists, galleries, and art fairs.

Contributors

406

Organizations

47

Software value

$32M

DHIS2

DHIS2 is an open-source health management information system (HMIS) platform used for reporting, analysis and dissemination of data for health programs. It provides tools for data collection, validation, analysis, and visualization, supporting health information management at national and local levels.

Contributors

305

Organizations

39

Software value

$35M

Actix Web

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Apache Isis

Use Apache Causeway™ to rapidly develop domain-driven apps or modular monoliths in Java, on top of the Spring Boot platform. Write your business logic in entities, domain services or view models, and the framework dynamically generates a representation of that domain model as a webapp, GraphQL or RESTful API. For prototyping or production.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Apache Wicket

Apache Wicket - Component-based Java web framework

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Ash Framework by Ash-Project: Declarative Elixir Application Builder

A declarative, extensible framework for building Elixir applications.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Axum

Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Azure Functions Host

The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

BeeGae

beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Bottle

bottle.py is a fast and simple micro-framework for python web-applications.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Bref

Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Broadleaf Commerce CE

Broadleaf Commerce CE - an eCommerce framework based on Java and Spring

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

CSLA .NET

A home for your business logic in any .NET application.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Chi

lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

CoopCycle-Web Worker-Owned Logistics Platform

Logistics & marketplace platform. Only for worker-owned business.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

DGS Framework

GraphQL for Java with Spring Boot made easy.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

DMVCFramework

DMVCFramework (for short) is a popular and powerful framework for WEB API in Delphi. Supports RESTful and JSON-RPC WEB APIs development.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Django Debug Toolbar

A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Django Import Export

Django application and library for importing and exporting data with admin integration.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Django REST framework

Web APIs for Django. 🎸

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Falcon

The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

FastEndpoints

A light-weight REST API development framework for ASP.NET 6 and newer.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Feathers

The API and real-time application framework

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

FedSpendingTransparency-USASpending-API

Server application to serve U.S. federal spending data via a RESTful API

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Finatra

Fast, testable, Scala services built on TwitterServer and Finagle

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Flask-AppBuilder

Simple and rapid application development framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto CRUD generation for your models, google charts and much more. Demo (login with guest/welcome) - http://flaskappbuilder.pythonanywhere.com/

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Flask-SocketIO

Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Forest Admin

🧱 Dependency of Express Lianas for Forest Admin

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
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