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What are some alternatives to Node.js?
AngularJS, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and React are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Node.js. "Quick to develop" is the primary reason why developers choose AngularJS.
AngularJS
Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
Why people like AngularJS:
- Quick to develop
- Great mvc
- Powerful
- Restful
PHP
A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
Why people like PHP:
- Large community
- Open source
- Easy deployment
- Great frameworks
Python
A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
Why people like Python:
- Great libraries
- Readable code
- Beautiful code
- Rapid development
JavaScript
Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions
Why people like JavaScript:
- Can be used on frontend/backend
- It's everywhere
- Lots of great frameworks
- Fast
React
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Why people like React:
- Components
- Virtual dom
- Performance
- Simplicity
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
Why people like Django:
- Rapid development
- Open source
- Great community
- Easy to learn
ASP.NET
An open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET
Java
A concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
Why people like Java:
- Great libraries
- Widely used
- Excellent tooling
- Huge amount of documentation available
ExpressJS
Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple
Why people like ExpressJS:
- Simple
- Node.js
- Javascript
- High performance
Go
An open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software
Why people like Go:
- High-performance
- Simple, minimal syntax
- Fun to write
- Easy concurrency support via goroutines
Java EE
The standard in community-driven enterprise software
GWT
An open-source set of tools to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications
Rails
Web development that doesn't hurt
Why people like Rails:
- Rapid development
- Great gems
- Great community
- Convention over configuration
Laravel
A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Why people like Laravel:
- Clean architecture
- Growing community
- Composer friendly
- Open source
Android SDK
An SDK that provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android.
Why people like Android SDK:
- Android development
- Necessary for android
- Android studio
- Backed by google
Spring Boot
Create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss
Why people like Spring Boot:
- Powerful and handy
- Easy setup
- Java
- Spring
.NET
A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
Why people like .NET:
- Tight integration with visual studio
- Stable code
- Great community
- Reliable and strongly typed server side language.
CodeIgniter
A Fully Baked PHP Framework
Why people like CodeIgniter:
- Mvc
- Easy setup
- Open source
- Well documented
Symfony
A PHP full-stack web framework
Why people like Symfony:
- Open source
- Php
- Community
- Dependency injection
Spring
Provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications
Why people like Spring:
- Java
- Open source
- Great community
- Very powerful
Meteor
An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework
Why people like Meteor:
- Real-time
- Full stack, one language
- Best app dev platform available today
- Data synchronization
Next.js
A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
Why people like Next.js:
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting
- Universal JavaScript
- Built with React
- Zero setup
Play
The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala
Why people like Play:
- Scala
- Web-friendly architecture
- Built on akka
- Stateless
Yii
A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications
Why people like Yii:
- Open source
- Code generator
- Simple
- Active record
CakePHP
The Rapid Development Framework for PHP
Why people like CakePHP:
- Open source
- Really rapid framework
- Good code organization
- Flexibility
Phoenix Framework
Most web frameworks make you choose between speed and a productive environment. Phoenix gives you both.
Why people like Phoenix Framework:
- High performance
- Super fast
- Rapid development
- Erlang VM
MEAN
A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development
Why people like MEAN:
- Javascript
- Easy
- Nosql
- Great community
.NET Core
An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community
Why people like .NET Core:
- Great performance
- Perfect to do any backend ( and a fast frontend) stuff
- Cross-platform
- All Platform (Mac, Linux, Windows)
Grails
An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM
Why people like Grails:
- Groovy
- Jvm
- Gorm
- Rapid development
Tornado
A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed
Why people like Tornado:
- Open source
- So fast
- Great for microservices architecture
- Websockets
Zend Framework
An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5
Why people like Zend Framework:
- Open source
- Community
- Scalable
- Fast
Dropwizard
Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services
Why people like Dropwizard:
- Quick and easy to get a new http service going
- Health monitoring
- Easy setup
- Metrics integration
Phalcon
Web framework delivered as a C-extension for PHP
Why people like Phalcon:
- Fast
- High performance
- Open source
- Fast and easy to use
Cocoa Touch (iOS)
The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps
Why people like Cocoa Touch (iOS):
- Backed by Apple
- It's just awesome
- User Friendly Performance
Nette Framework
An open-source framework for creating web applications in PHP
Spring MVC
A Java framework which is used to build web applications
NestJS
A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications by @kammysliwiec.
Why people like NestJS:
- Powerful but super friendly to work with
- Fast development
- Angular style syntax for the backend
- NodeJS ecosystem
Vert.x
A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
Why people like Vert.x:
- Fast
- Java
- Light weight
- Extensible
PHP-MVC
Simple and easy to understand MVC skeleton application
Spring Framework
An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform
Rocket
Web Framework for Rust
Why people like Rocket:
- Uses all the rust features extensively
- Easy to use
- Django analog in rust
- Provides nice abstractions
io.js
A friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model
Why people like io.js:
- ES6 features
- Compatible with NPM
- JavaScript
- v8
Mojolicious
Perl real-time web framework
Why people like Mojolicious:
- Open source
- Real-time
- Perl is still awesome
- True async
Kohana
An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework
Why people like Kohana:
- Open source
- Efficient and lightweight
- Cascading filesystem
- Easy to understand PHP framework
Vapor
A type-safe web framework for Swift
Why people like Vapor:
- Fast
- Type-safe
- Swift
- Great for apis
Twisted
Event-driven networking engine written in Python
Why people like Twisted:
- Easy-to-understand concurrency
- Twisted prevails
- It works
- Solid, flexible, powerful
Cocoa (OS X)
The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X
Why people like Cocoa (OS X):
- Great community
- IOS
- Backed by apple
Iris
The fastest web framework for Go in (THIS) earth
Why people like Iris:
- Fast
- Easy to use
- Almost real-time support to its users
- Fluent API
