⚡ Backend Frameworks in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, backend frameworks are detected on 6.7% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top backend frameworks in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Ruby on Rails with a share of 26.5%, followed by ASP.NET with 16.6% and Laravel with 16.5%.

Ruby on Rails 26.5%
ASP.NET 16.6%
Laravel 16.5%
Nuxt 12.4%
Next.js 10.9%
CakePHP 3.1%
CodeIgniter 3%
Express 2.4%
Jakarta Server Pages 1.9%
Apache Sling 1.4%
Rack 1.1%
FuelPHP 1.1%
Struts 1.1%
Jakarta Servlet 0.9%
Other 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top frameworks that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Ruby on Rails ^(-1)
4. Nuxt ^(-1)
6. CakePHP ^(-14)
7. CodeIgniter ^(-1)
9. Jakarta Server Pages ^(-4)
10. Apache Sling ^(-2)
11. Rack ^(-10)
12. FuelPHP ^(-25)
13. Struts ^(-3)
15. Sails ^(-21)

✨ Best Backend Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 43 backend frameworks used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Ruby on Rails Chicago, Illinois, United States A full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern. FreeOpen source	26.5%
2	ASP.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side web application framework that runs on the .NET platform and enables developers to build dynamic websites and APIs using languages like C#. FreeOpen source	16.6%
3	Laravel New York, United States An open-source PHP backend framework that provides all features needed to build modern web applications such as routing, input validation, caching, queues, and file storage. FreeOpen source	16.5%
4	Nuxt San Francisco, California, United States An open-source framework based on Vue.js that enables developers to build full-stack web applications and websites using conventions like file-based routing, automatic component imports, and type-safe support out of the box. FreeOpen source	12.4%
5	Next.js San Francisco, California, United States A React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes. FreeOpen source	10.9%
6	CakePHP Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A rapid development framework for PHP that uses MVC, front controller, associative data mapping and active record patterns to help developers build web applications faster. FreeOpen source	3.1%
7	CodeIgniter Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada An open-source PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup. FreeOpen source	3%
8	Express San Francisco, California, United States A minimal and flexible Node.js web framework that lets developers build web apps and APIs using routing, middleware, template engines, and support for serving static assets. FreeOpen source	2.4%
9	Jakarta Server Pages Brussels, Belgium A technology that enables developers to create dynamic web content using XML markup, custom tags, expression language, and Java. FreeOpen source	1.9%
10	Apache Sling Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content. FreeOpen source	1.4%
11	Rack A minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged. FreeOpen source	1.1%
12	FuelPHP An open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. FreeOpen source	1.1%
13	Struts Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source MVC framework for creating modern Java web applications. FreeOpen source	1.1%
14	Jakarta Servlet Brussels, Belgium Enables developers to write web UIs using pure Java. FreeOpen source	0.9%
15	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	0.7%
16	Yii Framework Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. FreeOpen source	0.7%
17	Django Huntersville, North Carolina, United States A high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design while following the Model-View-Template architectural pattern and the "don't repeat yourself" principle. FreeOpen source	0.7%
18	ASP.NET Core Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web framework and the successor to ASP.NET that enables development of web apps and APIs using .NET on Windows, macOS, or Linux. FreeOpen source	0.5%
19	Symfony Clichy, Île-de-France, France An open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity. FreeOpen source	0.4%
20	SvelteKit A framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte. FreeOpen source	0.3%
21	Inertia.js New York, United States A toolkit for building single-page applications with React, Vue.js, or Svelte while keeping classic server-side routing and controllers. FreeOpen source	0.3%
22	Livewire Buffalo, New York, United States A full-stack framework for Laravel that allows developers to build dynamic user interface components using PHP and Blade templates without writing front-end JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.3%
23	Spring Palo Alto, United States A Java framework for building enterprise-grade applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
24	Remix Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A full-stack React-based web framework that delivers server-rendered pages with nested routing and progressive enhancement. FreeOpen source	0.2%
25	Java Portlet Java Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal.	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Backend Frameworks in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 68 backend frameworks across the web.
Of these, 43 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.