Best Development Frameworks for Startups

Flutter

Google

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Paint your app to life in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload. Use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes. Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. Layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs. Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart's native compilers. Flutter's hot reload helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bugs faster. Experience sub-second reload times without losing state on emulators, simulators, and hardware.

9 Ratings

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React Native

React

React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes. Declarative views make your code more predictable and easier to debug. Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs. Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM. We don’t make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new features in React without rewriting existing code. React components implement a render() method that takes input data and returns what to display. This example uses an XML-like syntax called JSX. Input data that is passed into the component can be accessed by render() via this.props.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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Jekyll

No more databases, comment moderation, or pesky updates to install, just your content. Markdown, Liquid, HTML & CSS go in. Static sites come out ready for deployment. Permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all first-class citizens here. Sick of dealing with hosting companies? GitHub Pages are powered by Jekyll, so you can easily deploy your site using GitHub for free, custom domain name and all. Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more. The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your terminal. Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production. To change Jekyll’s default build behavior have a look through the configuration options.

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Gatsby

Gatsby is an open-source, modern website framework that builds performance into every site by leveraging the latest web technologies such as React and GraphQL. Create blazing-fast apps and websites without needing to become a performance expert. Preview is like a private playground for developers, designers, and content creators. It provides a shareable temporary URL for viewing changes immediately and in context—so you can make sure that new header plays nicely with the rest of the page before hitting “publish.” Gatsby Builds is the fastest continuous deployment solution for Gatsby sites and apps—up to 20x faster standard builds times than other solutions, and now up to 1000x faster with Incremental Builds (beta). Use automated Lighthouse performance checks and deploy previews to fix errors before they’re published. Build with Gatsby and deploy to your favorite CDN.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $99 per month

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Django

Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. Django was designed to help developers take applications from concept to completion as quickly as possible. Django takes security seriously and helps developers avoid many common security mistakes. Some of the busiest sites on the web leverage Django’s ability to quickly and flexibly scale. Django includes dozens of extras you can use to handle common web development tasks. Django takes care of user authentication, content administration, site maps, RSS feeds, and many more tasks — right out of the box.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Titanium SDK

Write in JavaScript, and run natively everywhere. Titanium lets you develop cross-platform native mobile applications and build great mobile experiences using JavaScript. Access your application's hundreds of native UI and non-visual components (such as networks and media APIs). Easily include third-party modules in your apps with Titanium's wide selection of community modules and premium support integrations. The Titanium SDK helps you build native cross-platform mobile applications using JavaScript and the Titanium API, which abstracts the native APIs of the mobile platforms. Titanium empowers you to create immersive, full-featured applications, featuring over 80% code reuse across mobile apps. TiDev licenses Titanium under the OSI-approved Apache Public License (Version 2) and is free for personal and commercial use. Create a basic UI, manage event handling and learn about animations, gestures, and orientation modes.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. If you're new to jQuery. Return a collection of matched elements either found in the DOM based on passed argument(s) or created by passing an HTML string. All the aspects of the API that were deprecated in the corresponding version of jQuery. These methods get and set DOM attributes of elements.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Flask

Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework. It is designed to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to complex applications. It began as a simple wrapper around Werkzeug and Jinja and has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks. Flask offers suggestions, but doesn't enforce any dependencies or project layout. It is up to the developer to choose the tools and libraries they want to use. There are many extensions provided by the community that make adding new functionality easy.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Svelte

Svelte is a radical new approach to building user interfaces. Whereas traditional frameworks like React and Vue do the bulk of their work in the browser, Svelte shifts that work into a compile step that happens when you build your app. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM diffing, Svelte writes code that surgically updates the DOM when the state of your app changes. We're proud that Svelte was recently voted the most loved web framework with the most satisfied developers in a pair of industry surveys. We think you'll love it too. Read the introductory blog post to learn more. Svelte is a tool for building fast web applications. It is similar to JavaScript frameworks such as React and Vue, which share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. But there's a crucial difference: Svelte converts your app into ideal JavaScript at build time, rather than interpreting your application code at run time.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Next.js

Vercel

Next.js gives you the best developer experience with all the features you need for production: hybrid static & server rendering, TypeScript support, smart bundling, route pre-fetching, and more. The interactive course with quizzes will guide you through everything you need to know to use Next.js. Next.js has built-in support for internationalized (i18n) routing since v10.0.0. You can provide a list of locales, the default locale, and domain-specific locales and Next.js will automatically handle the routing.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Onsen UI

Experience streamlined development with zero-time setup, using the technologies you already know and love - Javascript, HTML and CSS. Worried that PhoneGap / Cordova apps are slow? Fear not! All animations in Onsen UI have been tuned and optimized to perform well on a wide range of devices. We take great care to ensure that apps made using Onsen UI feel smooth even on lower end devices. Onsen UI is easy to learn while being a powerful tool to create complex mobile apps. We have lots of learning resources including official documentation, an interactive tutorial and a community forum where your questions get answered. A rich variety of UI components specially designed for mobile apps. Onsen UI provides tabs, side menu, stack navigation and tons of other components such as lists and forms.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Mithril.js

Mithril.js is a modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (< 10kb gzip), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box. Mithril.js is used by companies like Vimeo and Nike, and open source platforms like Lichess. If you are an experienced developer and want to know how Mithril.js compares to other frameworks, see the framework comparison page. An easy way to try out Mithril.js is to include it from a CDN and follow this tutorial. It'll cover the majority of the API surface (including routing and XHR) but it'll only take 10 minutes. You can now update the label of the button by clicking the button. Since we used m.mount, you don't need to manually call m.render to apply the changes in the count variable to the HTML; Mithril.js does it for you.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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TSQL.APP

UX1 BV

TSQL.APP is a web-based SQL platform for building data-driven applications directly within SQL Server. Featuring a built-in IDE, it enables developers to create responsive web apps using SQL for backend logic and UI interactions. Key features include: Dynamic UI Components: Cards represent database records in list and form views, with customizable modals for inputs, alerts, tables, and real-time reports. Action Scripting: SQL-based action scripts define app behavior, enabling CRUD operations and complex workflows. Real-Time Interactivity: Reports auto-refresh, and audio/visual alerts provide instant user feedback. Security and Accessibility: Supports secure logins, cloud access, and file management through meta tables. Extensibility: Integrates with .NET CLR for advanced operations. TSQL.APP is ideal for building adaptable business apps with responsive data handling, streamlined workflows, and custom user interactions.

1 Rating

Starting Price: €220 5 Developers/Users

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Webix

JavaScript UI library and framework for speeding up web development. JS Framework for cross-platform web Apps development 102 UI widgets and feature-rich CSS / HTML5 JavaScript controls. Save at least 3000+ development hours by using ready-made widgets and UI controls. Develop Web UI 30% faster. We have accumulated the best design ideas. We have meticulously considered UX of each Webix component for five conceptual designs. Our support service specialists know everything about our library and can help you solve any problem. We also have an official support forum where you can discuss issues with our developers. By using Webix JS framework you receive an elegant and lightweight code based on object-oriented programming concepts. Associate your project with jQuery JavaScript library, MVC frameworks AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Backbone.js, third party UI extensions.

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Angular

Learn one way to build applications with Angular and reuse your code and abilities to build apps for any deployment target. For web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop. Achieve the maximum speed possible on the Web Platform today, and take it further, via Web Workers and server-side rendering. Angular puts you in control over scalability. Meet huge data requirements by building data models on RxJS, Immutable.js or another push-model. Build features quickly with simple, declarative templates. Extend the template language with your own components and use a wide array of existing components. Get immediate Angular-specific help and feedback with nearly every IDE and editor. All this comes together so you can focus on building amazing apps rather than trying to make the code work. From prototype through global deployment, Angular delivers the productivity and scalable infrastructure that supports Google's largest applications.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Bootstrap

Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins. Jump right into building with Bootstrap, use the CDN, install it via the package manager, or download the source code. Bootstrap utilizes Sass for modular and customizable architecture. Import only the components you need, enable global options like gradients and shadows and write your own CSS with our variables, maps, functions, and mixins. Import one stylesheet and you're off to the races with every feature of our CSS. The easiest way to customize Bootstrap, include only the CSS you need. Bootstrap 5 is evolving with each release to better utilize CSS variables for global theme styles, individual components, and even utilities. We provide dozens of variables for colors, font styles, and more for use anywhere.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Jest

Jest aims to work out of the box, config free, on most JavaScript projects. Make tests which keep track of large objects with ease. Snapshots live either alongside your tests, or embedded inline. Tests are parallelized by running them in their own processes to maximize performance. Tests are parallelized by running them in their own processes to maximize performance. By ensuring your tests have unique global state, Jest can reliably run tests in parallel. To make things quick, Jest runs previously failed tests first and re-organizes runs based on how long test files take. By ensuring your tests have unique global state, Jest can reliably run tests in parallel. To make things quick, Jest runs previously failed tests first and re-organizes runs based on how long test files take. Jest uses a custom resolver for imports in your tests, making it simple to mock any object outside of your test’s scope.

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Nuxt

NuxtLabs

Build your next Vue.js application with confidence using NuxtJS. An open source framework making web development simple and powerful. Nuxt is based on a powerful modular architecture. You can choose from more than 50 modules to make your development faster and easier. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to get PWA benefits, add Google Analytics to your page or generate a sitemap. With Nuxt.js, your application will be optimized out of the box. We do our best to build performant applications by utilizing Vue.js and Node.js best practices. To squeeze every unnecessary bit out of your app Nuxt includes a bundle analyzer and lots of opportunities to fine-tune your app. Our main focus is the Developer Experience. We love Nuxt.js and continuously improve the framework so you love it too! Expect appealing solutions, descriptive error messages, powerful defaults and detailed documentation.

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Vue.js

Builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript with intuitive API and world-class documentation. Truly reactive, compiler-optimized rendering system that rarely requires manual optimization. A rich, incrementally adoptable ecosystem that scales between a library and a full-featured framework. Vue is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and provides a declarative and component-based programming model that helps you efficiently develop user interfaces, be it simple or complex. Vue extends standard HTML with a template syntax that allows us to declaratively describe HTML output based on JavaScript state. Vue automatically tracks JavaScript state changes and efficiently updates the DOM when changes happen. Vue is a framework and ecosystem that covers most of the common features needed in frontend development.

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LangChain

LangChain is a powerful, composable framework designed for building, running, and managing applications powered by large language models (LLMs). It offers an array of tools for creating context-aware, reasoning applications, allowing businesses to leverage their own data and APIs to enhance functionality. LangChain’s suite includes LangGraph for orchestrating agent-driven workflows, and LangSmith for agent observability and performance management. Whether you're building prototypes or scaling full applications, LangChain offers the flexibility and tools needed to optimize the LLM lifecycle, with seamless integrations and fault-tolerant scalability.

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SymfonyInsight

Symfony

We strive to make your team progress with the best tools and practices. We offer the widest range of training plans on PHP and Symfony, using different support methods. The creators of Symfony offer a large scope of intelligent solutions to help your business soar during each period of your web project development. Innovative pre-packaged or custom-made services to get you or your teams up to speed. Our development teams create your PHP / Symfony applications in compliance with the state of the art and the latest best practices of the framework. In answer to your needs, we validate complementary profiles, Front-end and/or Back-End, via our 50+ international partners network, mastering the latest web development tools and methods.

Starting Price: €19 per month

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Syncfusion Essential Studio

Syncfusion

Includes more than 1,600 components and frameworks for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC, Core), UWP, WinUI, Xamarin, Flutter, JavaScript, Angular, Blazor, Vue and React. Includes top requested components such as charts, grids, schedulers, diagrams, maps, gauges, docking, ribbons, and many more! Working with the industry’s best and brightest minds to streamline your business. Includes more than 1,700 components and frameworks for major platforms. A wide range of product demos and training, including video tutorials, documentation, and KBs. Every control is fine-tuned to work with a high volume of data. Create powerful apps by viewing and editing Excel, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files. Truly unlimited dedicated support system via the public forum, feature & feedback page, live chat, and support tickets. Easy integration of tools to blend Syncfusion controls with your project.

Starting Price: $495 one-time payment

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Ruby on Rails

Over the past two decades, Rails has taken countless companies to millions of users and billions in market valuations. Over six thousand people have contributed code to Rails, and many more have served the community through evangelism, documentation, and bug reports. Rendering HTML templates, updating databases, sending and receiving emails, maintaining live pages via WebSockets, enqueuing jobs for asynchronous work, storing uploads in the cloud, providing solid security protections for common attacks. Databases come to life with business logic encapsulated in rich objects. Modeling associations between tables, providing callbacks when saved, encrypting sensitive data seamlessly, and expressing SQL queries beautifully. Controllers expose the domain model to the web, process incoming parameters, set caching headers, and render templates, responding with either HTML or JSON.

Starting Price: Free

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Laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things. We love clean code just as much as you do. Simple, elegant syntax puts amazing functionality at your fingertips. Every feature has been thoughtfully considered to provide a wonderful developer experience. Dispatch background jobs to perform slow tasks like sending emails and generating reports while maintaining blazing fast response times. Stop sweating authentication. Laravel provides scaffolding for secure, session-based authentication, while Laravel Sanctum provides painless authentication for APIs and mobile applications. Laravel is committed to delivering the best testing experience you can imagine. No more brittle tests that are a nightmare to maintain. Beautiful testing APIs, database seeding, and painless browser testing let you ship with confidence.

Starting Price: Free

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jQuery Mobile

OpenJS Foundation

jQuery Mobile is an HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive websites and apps that are accessible on all smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices. jQuery Mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique applications for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a single highly-branded responsive website or application that will work on all popular smartphone, tablet, and desktop platforms. We believe that your website or app should feel like your brand, not any particular OS. To make building highly customized themes easy, we've created ThemeRoller for mobile to make it easy to drag and drop colors and download a custom theme. For polished visuals without the bloat, we leverage CSS3 properties. We recommend using our tool to build a custom bundle that contains only the components you need.

Starting Price: Free

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Mobile Angular UI

Mobile Angular UI is a mobile UI framework just like Sencha Touch or jQuery Mobile. If you know Angular JS and Twitter Bootstrap you already know it! Mobile Angular UI provides essential mobile components that are missing in Bootstrap 3, switches, overlays, sidebars, scrollable areas, and absolute positioned top and bottom navbars that don't bounce on scroll. It relies on robust libraries like fastclick.js and overthrow.js to achieve a better mobile experience. No jQuery dependencies, no fat bootstrap js. Just a few angular.js directives are super easy to learn to put things together. Mobile Angular UI retains most of the Bootstrap 3 syntax. This way it’s trivial to bring an existing desktop web app to mobile. Also, a super-small CSS file is provided to do the opposite. Just include it and you’ll get a fully responsive and touch-enabled interface that can be used everywhere. FontAwesome Icons are included by default in place of Glyphicons.

Starting Price: Free

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Svelte Native

Svelte Native is a mobile application framework powered by Svelte, build mobile apps using the friendly web framework you already know. Build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps without web views. Get truly native UI and performance while sharing skills and code with the web. Use the full power of Svelte including transitions, stores, and reactivity. One of the smoothest development experiences available for mobile. Svelte Native is a new approach to building mobile applications using NativeScript. Where other JavaScript mobile development frameworks like React Native and NativeScript-Vue do the bulk of their work on the mobile device, Svelte Native shifts that work into a compile step that happens when you build your app. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM diffing, Svelte writes code that surgically updates the native view widgets when the state of your app changes.

Starting Price: Free

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Ember.js

Ember.js is a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications. It includes everything you need to build rich UIs that work on any device. Some of the best development teams in the world have been iterating on their products for years with Ember. With scalable UI architecture baked-in from the start, you'll be working with the same patterns these organizations use every step of the way. Ember’s out-of-the-box experience has everything you need to start building on day one and keep shipping for years. Benefit from our years of experience to help your team be productive—faster. Ember CLI is the backbone of modern Ember apps, providing code generators to create new entities and putting the necessary files in the right place, every time. Ember apps come with a built-in development environment with fast rebuilds, auto-reload, and a test runner!

Starting Price: Free

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Framework7

Framework7 is a free and open-source framework to develop mobile, desktop, or web apps with a native look and feel. It is also an indispensable prototyping tool to show a working app prototype as soon as possible in case you need to. With such a stunning set of UI components that Framework7 provides right from the box, it allows to create web apps, progressive web apps (PWA), and iOS and Android apps with a native look and feel. Framework7 paired with extra tools like Electron and NW.js allows to build native desktop apps. You can use any tools you love when working with Framework7. It doesn’t force you to use anything except plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Creating apps with Framework7 is easy as creating a website. And in addition to vanilla JavaScript library, Framework7 comes with Vue.js, React, and Svelte components to bring components-syntax, structured data, and data bindings with the power and simplicity of Vue.js, React, or Svelte.

Starting Price: Free

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Compare the Top Development Frameworks for Startups as of April 2025

What are Development Frameworks for Startups?

Flutter

React Native

React

Jekyll

Gatsby

Django

Titanium SDK

jQuery

Flask

Svelte

Next.js

Onsen UI

Mithril.js

TSQL.APP

Webix

Angular

Bootstrap

Jest

Nuxt

Vue.js

LangChain

SymfonyInsight

Syncfusion Essential Studio

Ruby on Rails

Laravel

jQuery Mobile

Mobile Angular UI

Svelte Native

Ember.js

Framework7

Best Development Frameworks for Startups

Compare the Top Development Frameworks for Startups as of April 2025

What are Development Frameworks for Startups?

Flutter

React Native

React

Jekyll

Gatsby

Django

Titanium SDK

jQuery

Flask

Svelte

Next.js

Onsen UI

Mithril.js

TSQL.APP

Webix

Angular

Bootstrap

Jest

Nuxt

Vue.js

LangChain

SymfonyInsight

Syncfusion Essential Studio

Ruby on Rails

Laravel

jQuery Mobile

Mobile Angular UI

Svelte Native

Ember.js

Framework7

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