📈 Backend Frameworks Ranked #26–#50

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Backend frameworks are software libraries of tools and modules that help developers build the server-side of a web application.

They typically provide structured routing of HTTP requests, database interaction and object-relational mapping, middleware and session handling, security mechanisms such as authentication and protection against common web vulnerabilities, and utilities for formatting output and managing application logic.

The following list shows the backend frameworks ranked from 26th to 50th out of 67 tracked.

RankNameMarket share
26
Play Framework

A community-maintained, high-velocity web framework for Java and Scala.

FreeOpen source
27
Flow

A PHP web application framework focused on Domain-Driven Design and clean code principles.

FreeOpen source
28
Flask
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A lightweight framework for building web applications in Python.

FreeOpen source
29
Blazor
Redmond, Washington, United States

An open-source web framework from Microsoft that allows developers to build full-stack web applications using C# and .NET.

FreeOpen source
30
Phoenix

A web framework for the Elixir programming language.

FreeOpen source
31
Apache Wicket
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A component-oriented backend framework for Java that enables developers to build dynamic web applications using pure Java and HTML.

FreeOpen source
32
Meteor
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

An open-source full-stack JavaScript framework based on Node.js that enables building real-time applications across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.

FreeOpen source
33
Hypernova
San Francisco, California, United States

A legacy open source service from Airbnb that renders JavaScript views on the server to deliver HTML for better page load and search engine indexing.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
34
Fat-Free Framework

A lightweight PHP micro-framework designed for rapid development of web applications and APIs.

FreeOpen source
35
Slim

An open-source, object-oriented PHP micro framework designed for rapid development of web applications and APIs.

FreeOpen source
36
FuelPHP

An open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.

FreeOpen source
37
Sails
Austin, Texas, United States

An enterprise-grade MVC framework for Node.js designed to build data-driven APIs and realtime web applications.

FreeOpen source
38
Grails

A Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot.

FreeOpen source
39
Sapper

An open-source Svelte framework for server-rendered and client-hydrated web applications that has been deprecated in favor of its successor, SvelteKit.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
40
Kohana

A deprecated open-source PHP framework that was last updated in 2016.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
41
Fresh

A full-stack web framework for Deno using Preact that renders pages on demand at the edge with server-side rendering and minimal client-side JavaScript.

FreeOpen source
42
Frappe Framework
Mumbai, India

A full-stack web application framework written in Python and JavaScript with MariaDB as the primary database.

FreeOpen source
43
Mojolicious

A real-time Perl web framework that enables the creation of web applications that use WebSockets and have long-running requests without blocking.

FreeOpen source
44
Vaadin
Turku, Finland

A full-stack platform for building responsive, modern web applications in Java, featuring a library of UI components and powerful development tools.

FreeOpen source$9+/developer/month
45
AdonisJS

A TypeScript-first framework for Node.js for building web applications or API servers.

FreeOpen source
46
Koa

An expressive HTTP middleware framework for Node.js using ES2017 async functions.

FreeOpen source
47
Bridgetown
Portland, Oregon, United States

A progressive website generator and fullstack framework powered by Ruby.

FreeOpen source
48
Gorilla

A web toolkit for the Go programming language that provides useful, composable packages for writing HTTP-based applications.

FreeOpen source
49
Perl Dancer

A lightweight, open-source web application framework for Perl, inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.

FreeOpen source
50
Apache Cocoon
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An open-source Java web application framework built around XML processing and retired in January 2025.

FreeOpen sourceLegacy

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