🆚 Express vs. Laravel

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Laravel is three times more popular than Express.
🌎 Laravel is more popular in the United States, Germany, and India.
🌍 Express is more popular in Puerto Rico, DPR Korea, and Grenada.

Express

Laravel

Type

Backend framework

About

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.

Laravel is 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.

It includes an expressive templating engine, a database ORM with migrations and seeding, built-in user authentication and authorization, a command-line interface, and a unified API for various cache backends.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

New York, United States

Website

expressjs.com #273,395

laravel.com #2,213

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Laravel backend framework is 3 times more popular than Express.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Laravel is more popular in the United States, Germany, and India, while Express is more popular in Puerto Rico, DPR Korea, and Grenada.

United States

Germany

India

United Kingdom

Russia

Netherlands

Brazil

Japan

Indonesia

France

Awards

⭐ 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.

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Laravel is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Express is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, restaurants, and sports sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Travel

Entertainment

General News

Health

Blogs/Wiki