🆚 CakePHP vs. Express
- 📈 Express is much more popular than CakePHP.
- 🌎 Express is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 CakePHP is more popular in Japan, Malta, and Vanuatu.
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CakePHP is 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.
It includes an ORM and query builder, integrated scaffolding and code generation tools, built-in validation and security against XSS, CSRF, and SQL injections, flexible routing and template helpers, i18n support, caching, and a large plugin ecosystem.
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.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Romania in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Brazil in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Taiwan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Argentina in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Malaysia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Chile in the Backend Frameworks category.
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🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


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