🆚 Express vs. Lift
- 📈 Express is much more popular than Lift.
- 🌍 Express is more popular in all countries.
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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.
Lift is a secure and modular web framework written in Scala. It offers built-in resistance to many OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, a "View First" development approach, and high concurrency support via Scala actors.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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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.
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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


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