📈 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.
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The following list shows the backend frameworks ranked from 26th to 50th out of 69 currently tracked.

RankNameMarket share
26
Zope
Fishers, Indiana, United States

An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python.

FreeOpen source
27
Flask
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A lightweight framework for building web applications in Python.

FreeOpen source
28
Play Framework
France

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

FreeOpen source
29
Flow
Dresden, Germany

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

FreeOpen source
30
ThinkPHP
Shanghai, China

A Chinese open-source, object-oriented web application framework based on PHP.

FreeOpen source
31
Phoenix
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

A web framework for the Elixir programming language.

FreeOpen source
32
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
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
Philippines

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

FreeOpen source
35
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
36
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
37
FuelPHP
United States

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

FreeOpen source
38
Slim

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

FreeOpen source
39
Grails
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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

FreeOpen source
40
Sapper
New York, United States

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
41
Kohana

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

FreeOpen sourceLegacy
42
Fresh
San Diego, California, United States

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
43
Frappe Framework
Mumbai, India

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

FreeOpen source
44
AdonisJS
Faridabad, India

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

FreeOpen source
45
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
46
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
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
Koa

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

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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