🆚 ASP.NET vs. Express

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 ASP.NET is much more popular than Express.
🌎 ASP.NET is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Express is more popular in Uzbekistan, Seychelles, and DPR Korea.

Type

Backend framework

About

Microsoft ASP.NET is 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#.

It offers Web Forms, MVC, Web Pages, Web API, and SignalR for real-time communication, includes tools for authentication, state management, and supports the Razor template syntax for combining HTML and server-side code.

Express is 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.

It provides a robust routing system with support for HTTP verbs, built-in middleware for JSON and URL-encoded parsing, error handlers, and a large ecosystem of third-party plugins available through npm.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

asp.net

expressjs.com #273,395

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The ASP.NET backend framework is 8 times more popular than Express.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

ASP.NET is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, while Express is more popular in Uzbekistan, Seychelles, and DPR Korea.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Italy

India

Turkey

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Australia