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Vert.x
Vert.x
Handle more requests with fewer resources compared to traditional stacks and frameworks based on blocking I/O. Vert.x is a great fit for all kinds of execution environments, including constrained environments like virtual machines and containers. People told you asynchronous programming is too hard for you? We strive to make programming with Vert.x an approachable experience, without sacrifying correctness and performance. Don’t waste resources, increase deployment density and save money. You pick the model that works best for the task at hand, callbacks, promises, futures, reactive extensions, and (Kotlin) coroutines. Vert.x is a toolkit, not a framework, so it is naturally very composable and embeddable. We have no strong opinion on what your application structure should be like. Select the modules and clients you need and compose them as you craft your application.Starting Price: Free -
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Grails
Grails
A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot. Convention-over-configuration, sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and the Groovy language combine to make the Grails® framework easy to learn for Java developers. The Grails framework is built on top of Spring Boot and leverages Spring Boot's time-saving features, such as Spring-powered dependency injection. The Grails framework seamlessly and transparently integrates and interoperates with Java, the JVM, and existing Java EE containers. Apache Groovy is a language for the Java platform designed to enhance developers' productivity. It is an optionally-typed and dynamic language but with static-typing and static compilation capabilities. The Grails framework seamlessly integrates with GORM, a data access toolkit that provides a rich set of APIs for accessing relational and non-relational data. GORM also includes implementations for Hibernate (SQL), MongoDB, Cassandra, and Neo4j.Starting Price: Free -
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GraalVM
GraalVM
Discover libraries and frameworks that work out-of-the-box with Native Image. Apply Graal, an advanced optimizing compiler, that generates faster and leaner code requiring fewer compute resources. Compile Java applications ahead of time to native binaries that start up instantly and deliver peak performance with no warmup time. Leverage the best features and libraries of popular languages in a single app with no overhead. Debug, monitor, profile, and optimize resource consumption in Java and across multiple languages. GraalVM’s high-performance JIT compiler generates optimized native machine code that runs faster, produces less garbage, and uses less CPU thanks to a battery of advanced compiler optimizations and aggressive and sophisticated inlining techniques. The end results are applications that run faster and consume fewer resources, reducing cloud and infrastructure costs.Starting Price: Free -
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Atri Framework
Atri Labs
Atri framework is a full-stack web development framework to build Progressive Web Apps. Use our visual editor to increase your productivity. You can also add your custom React code. Currently, we support Python for backend development. We are planning to add support for NodeJS soon. Our CLI provides rich support for easy deployment at your platform of choice such as GitHub Pages, AWS, etc. Atri framework comes with a suite of productivity tools such as a visual editor, asset management tools, etc. that significantly reduce development time from months to hours. Atri framework is extending the definition of full-stack to include non-web developers in the development and maintenance of an app.Starting Price: $100 per user per month -
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Echo
Echo
High-performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework. Highly optimized HTTP router with zero dynamic memory allocation which smartly prioritizes routes. Build robust and scalable RESTful API, easily organized into groups. Automatically install TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt. HTTP/2 support improves speed and provides a better user experience. Many built-in middleware to use, or define your own. Middleware can be set at root, group, or route level. Data binding for HTTP request payload, including JSON, XML or form data. API to send a variety of HTTP responses, including JSON, XML, HTML, file, attachment, inline, stream, or blob. Template rendering using any template engine. Customized central HTTP error handling. Easily extendable API. Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritizes routes. Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs. Extensible middleware framework. Define middleware at root, group, or route level Data binding for JSON, XML, and form payload.Starting Price: Free -
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Jersey
Eclipse Foundation
Developing RESTful web services that seamlessly support exposing your data in a variety of representation media types and abstracting away the low-level details of client-server communication is not an easy task without a good toolkit. In order to simplify the development of RESTful web services and their clients in Java, a standard and portable JAX-RS API has been designed. Jersey RESTful web services 3. x framework is an open-source, production-quality, framework that provides support for Jakarta RESTful web services 3.0. Jersey framework is more than the JAX-RS reference implementation. Jersey provides its own API that extends the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features. Track the JAX-RS API and provide regular releases of production quality reference implementations that ship with GlassFish. Provides APIs to extend Jersey & build a community of users and developers. Makes it easy to build RESTful Web services utilizing Java and the Java Virtual Machine.Starting Price: Free -
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ent
ent
An entity framework for Go. Simple, yet powerful ORM for modeling and querying data. Simple API for modeling any database schema as Go objects. Run queries, and aggregations and traverse any graph structure easily. 100% statically typed and explicit API using code generation. The latest version of Ent now includes a type-safe API enabling ordering by fields and edges. This API will soon be available in our GraphQL integration too. You can now visualize your Ent schema as an ERD with one command. The API enables you to easily integrate features such as logging, tracing, caching, and even implementing soft deletion with 20 lines of code! The Ent framework supports GraphQL using the 99designs/gqlgen library and provides various integrations. Generating a GraphQL schema for nodes and edges defined in an Ent schema. Efficient field collection to overcome the N+1 problem without requiring data loaders.Starting Price: Free -
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Nancy
Nancy
Welcome to Nancy, our main inspiration is the Sinatra framework for Ruby and, hence, Nancy was named after the daughter of Frank Sinatra. NancyFx is the name of the umbrella project that contains all the components. Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP-based services on .NET and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy path to all interactions. This means that everything in Nancy is setup to have sensible defaults and conventions, instead of making you jump through hoops and go through configuration hell just to get up and running. With Nancy you can go from zero to website in a matter of minutes. Nancy is built to run anywhere and we mean it. Right from the start, Nancy was designed to not have any dependencies on existing frameworks. Built with the .NET framework client profile, Nancy can be used pretty much wherever you want to.Starting Price: Free -
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Mono
Mono
Cross-platform, open source .NET framework. Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework as part of the .NET Foundation and based on the ECMA standards for C# and the common language runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for the development of cross-platform applications. The latest Mono release is waiting for you. We cover everything you need to know, from configuring Mono to how the internals are implemented. Our documentation is open source too, so you can help us improve it. As an open-source project, we love getting contributions from the community. File a bug report, add new code or chat with the developers. Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross-platform applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Vite
VoidZero
Get ready for a development environment that can finally catch up with you. Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It consists of two major parts: A dev server that provides rich feature enhancements over native ES modules, for example extremely fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR). A build command that bundles your code with Rollup, pre-configured to output highly optimized static assets for production. Vite is opinionated and comes with sensible defaults out of the box, but is also highly extensible via its Plugin API and JavaScript API with full typing support.Starting Price: Free -
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Astro
Astro
Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy it everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries. Astro optimizes your website as no other framework can. Leverage Astro's unique zero-JS frontend architecture to unlock higher conversion rates with better SEO. Astro was designed for your content. Fetch data from any CMS or work locally with type-safe Markdown and MDX APIs. Build personal and professional blogs with Astro's built-in Markdown support and content APIs. Stand out from the crowd with a lightning-fast site that ranks higher in SEO. Agencies use Astro to build fast websites, faster. Customize every site with full control over your frontend code. Time is money. Give your customers a better shopping experience and grow your business faster. Put your best foot forward with a portfolio that performs. Help people get to know you (and your work) faster.Starting Price: Free -
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SwiftUI
Apple
SwiftUI helps you build great-looking apps across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift — and surprisingly little code. You can bring even better experiences to everyone, on any Apple device, using just one set of tools and APIs. Build sophisticated animations with expanded animation support. Use phases to create sequences of animations, or create multiple animation tracks using keyframes. SwiftUI automatically transfers the velocity of a user gesture to your animations so your app feels fluid and natural. Share more of your SwiftUI code with your watchOS apps. Scroll vertical TabViews using the crown, match colors with adaptive background containers, take advantage of edge-to-edge displays with new ToolbarItem placements, and leverage NavigationSplitView to build detailed list views.Starting Price: Free -
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Yii
Yii PHP framework
Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. Flexible yet pragmatic, works right out of the box, and has reasonable defaults. While Yii can virtually eliminate most repetitive coding tasks, you are responsible for the real creative work. This often starts with designing the whole system to be built, in terms of some database schema. The best way to do this is by using migrations. Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead. Sane defaults and built-in tools help you write solid and secure code. Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation. Yii is a generic web programming framework, meaning that it can be used for developing all kinds of web applications using PHP. Because of its component-based architecture and sophisticated caching support, it is especially suitable for developing large-scale applications such as portals, forums, content management systems (CMS), ecommerce projects, RESTful services, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Phalcon
Phalcon
A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension. Its innovative architecture makes Phalcon the fastest PHP framework ever built. Developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. Its functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under the Phalcon namespace, ready to be used. Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server's daemon start process. Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application. The code is compiled and isn't interpreted because it's already compiled to a specific platform and processor. Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications. Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme, and patterns you already know. Writing REST servers and applications has never been easier, with no boilerplate, and simple services that fit in one file.Starting Price: Free -
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Swoole
Swoole
Powering the next-generation microservices and applications. Build high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, GRPC services with PHP and easy-to-use coroutine, fibers API. Write your next scalable async application with PHP coroutines and fibers. Compared with other async programming frameworks or software such as Nginx, Tornado, and Node.js, Swoole is a complete async solution that has built-in support for async programming via fibers/coroutines, a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP server, GRPC, process pools) and support for popular PHP clients like PDO for MySQL, Redis, and CURL. You can use sync or async, coroutine, or fiber API to write the applications or create thousands of lightweight fibers within one Linux process. Swoole enhances the efficiency of your PHP applications and brings you out of the traditional stateless model, enabling you to focus on the development of innovative products at a high scale.Starting Price: Free -
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FuelPHP
FuelPHP
The Fuel PHP framework is a fast, simple, and flexible PHP 5.4+ framework, born from the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start. It was born out of the frustrations people have with the currently available frameworks and developed with support from a community of developers. FuelPHP is extremely portable, works on almost any server, and prides itself on clean syntax. FuelPHP is an MVC (Model View Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to have full support for HMVC as part of its architecture. But we didn't stop there, we also added ViewModels (also known as presentation models) into the mix which gives you the option to add a powerful layer between the controller and the view. FuelPHP also supports a more router-based approach where you might route directly to a closure which deals with the input URI, making the closure the controller and giving it control of further execution.Starting Price: Free -
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PHPixie
PHPixie
PHPixie is easy to learn and does not rely on automatic; you will always be in charge of what's happening. Designed for speed since first release and proven by independent benchmarks. Built using components that can be used without the framework. Linear execution flow, no static code, and low coupling. Reuse and share your code via Composer as self-contained bundles. Never find yourself in an event hell ever again as event use is avoided. Database components support working with MongoDB out of the box. Designed from scratch according to SOLID principles and industry standards. PHPixie started as a micro framework and has gradually grown to be one of the most popular full-stack PHP frameworks while retaining its high performance. This is in part because of the strict architecture that avoids common pitfalls such as reliance on static methods, global scope, singletons, and other antipatterns, thus also ensuring that the code is easy to read, debug, extend, and test.Starting Price: Free -
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Fat-Free Framework
Fat-Free Framework
Speed up your development process. F3 is lightweight, easy-to-use, and fast. Most of all, it doesn't get in your way. It has a gentle learning curve so you save money on training expenses. Whether you're a novice or an expert PHP programmer, F3 will get you up and running in no time. No unnecessary and painstaking installation procedures and no complex configuration are required. A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust web applications. Full-featured toolkit, super lightweight code base with just ~90kb, and easy to learn. Take advantage of the built-in features. Develop apps that really rock. F3 gives you a solid foundation, a mature code base, and a no-nonsense approach to writing web applications. Under the hood is an easy-to-use web development tool kit, high-performance URL routing, a multi-protocol cache engine, built-in code highlighting, and support for multilingual i18n applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Pop PHP Framework
Pop PHP Framework
Pop PHP is an open source, object-oriented PHP framework with humble beginnings dating back to 2009, where it started as a small library of components. The focus of Pop is to provide a robust set of lightweight tools to assist developers with rapid application development. With a relatively small learning curve, Pop aims to help developers in getting the features they need into their applications so they can be up and running quickly. The Pop PHP Framework contains a group of core components and an additional 30+ components that serve as a toolkit for rapid application development. The framework itself has a base set of core components as well as numerous other additional components to facilitate many of the common features needed for a PHP application. The goal is so that anyone from a novice developer to an advanced programmer can install and start using the Pop PHP Framework quickly and effectively.Starting Price: Free -
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Koin
Kotzilla
Koin simplifies DI and empowers developers in the Kotlin landscape. Koin helps you build any kind of Kotlin & Kotlin multiplatform application, from Android mobile to backend Ktor server applications. Koin is built for the most demanding apps and is trusted by developers worldwide. Koin is an open source dependency injection framework tailored for Kotlin developers. With its intuitive DSL and lightweight container, Koin simplifies dependency injection for any Kotlin application and SDK. Koin framework lets you build your dependency injection in a breeze, with simple API and Kotlin DSL. Koin can help you create complex Android mobile applications, so you can focus on your business, not your tools. Koin connects on top of the Kotlin ecosystem. Using the power of Kotlin, Koin provides easy dependency injection across multiple platforms. Already used by thousands of companies in the world, Koin is ready to scale in production.Starting Price: Free -
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SvelteKit
SvelteKit
SvelteKit is a framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte. It addresses common development challenges by providing solutions for routing, server-side rendering, data fetching, service workers, TypeScript integration, and more. SvelteKit apps are server-rendered by default, offering excellent first-load performance and SEO benefits, but can transition to client-side navigation to enhance user experience. The framework is designed to grow with developers, allowing them to start simple and add new features as needed. SvelteKit leverages Vite for a fast and feature-rich development experience, including hot module replacement. In short, Svelte is a way of writing user interface components, like a navigation bar, comment section, or contact form, that users see and interact with in their browsers. The Svelte compiler converts your components to JavaScript that can be run to render the HTML for the page and to CSS that styles the page.Starting Price: Free -
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Luigi
Luigi
Luigi is an enterprise-ready micro-frontend framework designed to help developers build modular, extensible, scalable, and consistent user interfaces and web applications. It enables the decomposition of monolithic web applications into clear UI modules that reflect their underlying backend modularity, promoting a unified user experience in distributed development environments. Luigi is technology-agnostic, allowing seamless integration of UI modules from external systems and facilitating the extension of applications with additional functionalities from customers or third-party vendors in a secure manner. This approach allows the division and distribution of end-to-end feature development across multiple teams, enabling them to independently and rapidly develop, deploy, maintain, and operate their solutions. By preventing technology lock-ins, Luigi allows organizations to react quickly to new trends.Starting Price: Free -
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Wasp
Wasp, Inc.
Wasp is a full-stack web application framework that allows developers to build apps faster with less boilerplate code. It integrates React for frontend development, Node.js for backend, and Prisma for database management, enabling developers to focus on the essential parts of their app. The framework’s declarative syntax and simplified configuration mean that developers can describe their app's high-level structure in a .wasp file, and the system automatically handles much of the repetitive work, including routing, authentication, and API management. Wasp's goal is to simplify app development without sacrificing flexibility, making it ideal for building MVPs and production-ready applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Tornado Web Server
Tornado
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user. Tornado is different from most Python web frameworks. It is not based on WSGI, and it is typically run with only one thread per process. While some support of WSGI is available in the tornado.wsgi module, it is not a focus of development and most applications should be written to use Tornado’s own interfaces (such as tornado.web) directly instead of using WSGI. In general, Tornado code is not thread-safe. Tornado is integrated with the standard library asyncio module and shares the same event loop (by default since Tornado 5.0). In general, libraries designed for use with asyncio can be mixed freely with Tornado. -
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Spring Framework
Spring
Spring makes programming Java quicker, easier, and safer for everybody. Spring’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it the world's most popular Java framework. Spring’s flexible libraries are trusted by developers all over the world. Spring delivers delightful experiences to millions of end-users every day—whether that’s streaming TV, online shopping, or countless other innovative solutions. Spring’s flexible and comprehensive set of extensions and third-party libraries let developers build almost any application imaginable. At its core, Spring Framework’s Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) features provide the foundation for a wide-ranging set of features and functionality. Whether you’re building secure, reactive, cloud-based microservices for the web, or complex streaming data flows for the enterprise, Spring has the tools to help.Starting Price: Free -
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Backbone.js
Backbone.js
Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. When working on a web application that involves a lot of JavaScript, one of the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to the DOM. It's all too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up as tangled piles of jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically to keep data in sync between the HTML UI, your JavaScript logic, and the database on your server. For rich client-side applications, a more structured approach is often helpful. With Backbone, you represent your data as Models, which can be created, validated, destroyed, and saved to the server.Starting Price: Free -
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Alpine.js
Alpine.js
Alpine is a rugged, minimal tool for composing behavior directly in your markup. Think of it like jQuery for the modern web. Plop in a script tag and get going. Declare a new Alpine component and its data for a block of HTML. Dynamically set HTML attributes on an element. Prevent a block of HTML from being initialized by Alpine. Hide a block of HTML until after Alpine is finished initializing its contents. Reference elements directly by their specified keys using the magic property. Execute a script each time one of its dependencies change. Run code when an element is initialized by Alpine.Starting Price: Free -
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ASP.NET Core
Microsoft
Millions of developers use or have used ASP.NET 4.x to create web apps. ASP.NET Core is a redesign of ASP.NET 4.x, including architectural changes that result in a leaner, more modular framework. ASP.NET Core 3.x and later can only target .NET Core. Generally, ASP.NET Core is composed of .NET Standard libraries. Libraries written with .NET Standard 2.0 run on any .NET platform that implements .NET Standard 2.0. There are several advantages to targeting .NET Core, and these advantages increase with each release. Tag Helpers enable server-side code to participate in creating and rendering HTML elements in Razor files. Built-in support for multiple data formats and content negotiation lets your web APIs reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices.Starting Price: Free -
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ASP.NET
Microsoft
Blazor is a feature of ASP.NET for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor gives you real .NET running in the browser on WebAssembly. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. ASP.NET supports industry standard authentication protocols. Built-in features help protect your apps against cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). ASP.NET provides a built-in user database with support for multi-factor authentication and external authentication with Google, Twitter, and more.Starting Price: Free -
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CakePHP
CakePHP
The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.3.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. While CakePHP 4 contains a number of breaking changes we have prepared an exhaustive migration guide covering all the deprecated and removed features as well as highlighting the shiny new features. CakeDC, the commercial entity behind the CakePHP framework, was established by Larry Masters, the founder of CakePHP. CakeDC offers CakePHP development, consultancy, CakePHP training and code review Services. From startups and social networks to e-commerce and enterprise-level applications, CakeDC provides the highest quality CakePHP development available. The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks.Starting Price: Free