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Backend Web Frameworks

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

156 projects

309,399 contributors

$1.3B

Laravel Framework

Laravel Framework is an open-source PHP framework for building web applications, offering features such as routing, authentication, and database management.

Contributors

24,040

Organizations

4,543

Software value

$11M

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

21,369

Organizations

3,007

Software value

$80M

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

16,972

Organizations

3,346

Software value

$66M

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

13,016

Organizations

2,020

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

12,282

Organizations

2,915

Software value

$4M

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

10,232

Organizations

2,311

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

9,896

Organizations

2,373

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

7,715

Organizations

1,906

Software value

$3.6M

Fastify

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

Contributors

7,539

Organizations

1,741

Software value

$11M

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

7,499

Organizations

868

Software value

$10M

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

7,301

Organizations

1,165

Software value

$37M

Django REST Framework

Django REST Framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django. It provides serialization, authentication, viewsets, and other features to make it easy to build RESTful interfaces.

Contributors

7,144

Organizations

1,793

Software value

$2M

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java Project

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Contributors

6,943

Organizations

1,176

Software value

$66M

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

4,964

Organizations

1,409

Software value

$704K

Phoenix Framework

Phoenix is a web development framework written in Elixir that implements the server-side MVC pattern. It provides a productive and reliable foundation for building real-time, fault-tolerant web applications with built-in support for channels, live view, and WebSocket communication.

Contributors

4,800

Organizations

1,426

Software value

$2.3M

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

4,690

Organizations

1,362

Software value

$804K

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

4,658

Organizations

1,075

Software value

$5M

CodeIgniter 3

Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

Contributors

4,492

Organizations

829

Software value

$2.1M

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

4,235

Organizations

1,185

Software value

$39K

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

4,176

Organizations

408

Software value

$12M

Medusa

Medusa is an open-source composable commerce engine and headless e-commerce platform that enables developers to build scalable digital commerce solutions. It provides a modular architecture for creating custom online stores with features like order management, inventory tracking, and payment processing.

Contributors

3,945

Organizations

623

Software value

$174M

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

3,740

Organizations

565

Software value

$8.1M

Beego

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

Contributors

3,722

Organizations

631

Software value

$1.9M

Phalcon Framework

Phalcon is a high-performance, full-stack PHP framework implemented as a C extension. It offers low overhead, high execution speed, and a robust set of features including an MVC pattern, ORM, template engine, and security components.

Contributors

3,030

Organizations

545

Software value

$24M

django CMS

The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django

Contributors

2,710

Organizations

658

Software value

$4M

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

2,705

Organizations

589

Software value

$6.8M

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

2,678

Organizations

485

Software value

$16M

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

2,609

Organizations

793

Software value

$1.4M

Actix Web

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust that provides a robust foundation for building asynchronous web applications and microservices. It features a high-level ergonomic API, built-in support for HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2, WebSocket capabilities, and excellent performance characteristics.

Contributors

2,559

Organizations

851

Software value

$2M

Hono

Hono is a lightweight, ultrafast web framework for building high-performance applications. It provides a simple, expressive API for handling HTTP requests and can be used with various JavaScript/TypeScript runtimes including Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js.

Contributors

2,423

Organizations

803

Software value

$1.6M

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

2,406

Organizations

547

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

2,404

Organizations

601

Software value

$6.6M

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

2,338

Organizations

777

Software value

$1M

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

2,254

Organizations

770

Software value

$1.1M

go-zero

A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.

Contributors

2,245

Organizations

242

Software value

$4.5M

Hyperf

🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.

Contributors

2,237

Organizations

187

Software value

$11M

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

2,103

Organizations

566

Software value

$3.2M

Slim Framework

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

Contributors

2,081

Organizations

615

Software value

$346K

Nitro

Next Generation Server Toolkit. Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer.

Contributors

2,052

Organizations

588

Software value

$795K

Axum

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

Contributors

1,990

Organizations

630

Software value

$1.2M

Flask-SocketIO

Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.

Contributors

1,945

Organizations

373

Software value

$112K

Sanic

Sanic is a Python web framework and server designed for building fast HTTP APIs with async/await support. It offers features like request handling, routing, middleware, and WebSocket capabilities while emphasizing speed and simplicity.

Contributors

1,938

Organizations

532

Software value

$2.9M

FeathersJS

The API and real-time application framework

Contributors

1,927

Organizations

476

Software value

$2.2M

Grape

An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

Contributors

1,916

Organizations

634

Software value

$1.1M

hapi

hapi is a rich framework for building applications and services in Node.js. It enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic instead of spending time building infrastructure.

Contributors

1,869

Organizations

700

Software value

$803K

Sinatra

Sinatra is a lightweight web application framework for Ruby that enables building web applications with minimal effort using a domain-specific language. It emphasizes simplicity and flexibility over convention, allowing developers to quickly create web applications and APIs.

Contributors

1,859

Organizations

652

Software value

$737K

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

1,759

Organizations

207

Software value

$6.8M

Jupyter Server

Jupyter Server is a sub-project of Project Jupyter.

Contributors

1,723

Organizations

369

Software value

$5M

GoFrame

A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.

Contributors

1,664

Organizations

129

Software value

$8.5M

Durable Functions

The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions

Contributors

1,649

Organizations

220

Software value

$3.4M

Django Import Export

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

Contributors

1,638

Organizations

356

Software value

$625K

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

1,630

Organizations

227

Software value

$6.4M

Kratos

Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.

Contributors

1,556

Organizations

244

Software value

$1.3M

Vapor

Vapor is a server-side Swift web framework that enables building scalable backend services and APIs. It provides a robust set of tools and libraries for routing, database integration, authentication, and other web development features while maintaining Swift's safety and performance characteristics.

Contributors

1,518

Organizations

355

Software value

$952K

Flask App Builder

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/

Contributors

1,404

Organizations

244

Software value

$1.6M

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

1,354

Organizations

315

Software value

$2.4M

Mezzanine

Mezzanine is a content management system (CMS) built on the Django framework, designed to provide a robust and flexible platform for building content-rich websites. It offers features like hierarchical page navigation, rich text editing, media management, and built-in support for blogs, forms, and galleries.

Contributors

1,317

Organizations

303

Software value

$2.2M

http-proxy-middleware

:zap: The one-liner node.js http-proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js and more

Contributors

1,298

Organizations

335

Software value

$184K

ThinkPHP

ThinkPHP Framework

Contributors

1,261

Organizations

115

Software value

$522K

Vert.x-Web

HTTP web applications for Vert.x

Contributors

1,261

Organizations

261

Software value

$5.5M

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