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What are some alternatives to Rails?
Django, Ruby, Sinatra, React, and Laravel are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Rails.
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
Why people like Django:
- Rapid development
- Open source
- Great community
- Easy to learn
Ruby
A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity
Why people like Ruby:
- Programme friendly
- Quick to develop
- Great community
- Productivity
Sinatra
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL
Why people like Sinatra:
- Lightweight
- Simple
- Open source
- Ruby
React
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Why people like React:
- Components
- Virtual dom
- Performance
- Simplicity
Laravel
A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Why people like Laravel:
- Clean architecture
- Growing community
- Composer friendly
- Open source
Node.js
A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications
Why people like Node.js:
- Npm
- Javascript
- Great libraries
- High-performance
ASP.NET
An open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET
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
.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)
MEAN
A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development
Why people like MEAN:
- Javascript
- Easy
- Nosql
- Great community
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
Spring Framework
An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform
PHP-MVC
Simple and easy to understand MVC skeleton application
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
Mojolicious
Perl real-time web framework
Why people like Mojolicious:
- Open source
- Real-time
- Perl is still awesome
- True async
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
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
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
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
Apache Wicket
A component-based web application framework for the Java programming language
Why people like Apache Wicket:
- Java
- Component based
Dancer
Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl
Why people like Dancer:
- Microframework
Revel
A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language
Why people like Revel:
- Go
- MVC
- High-Productivity
- Full-Stack
Vaadin
Components and tools for building web apps in Java