🆚 CodeIgniter vs. Express
- 📈 Express is noticeably more popular than CodeIgniter.
- 🌎 Express is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Brazil.
- 🌍 CodeIgniter is more popular in India, Indonesia, and Japan.
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About
CodeIgniter is an open-source 
PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup.
It includes MVC support, clean URL routing, CSRF and XSS protection, helper libraries for database access, email, sessions, file uploading, and extensive documentation.
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
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Moldova in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Palestine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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OpenJS Foundation company profile🗃️ 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.