🆚 Express vs. Ruby on Rails

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than Express.
🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌍 Express is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Korea.

Express

Ruby on Rails

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.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework that includes everything needed to build database-driven web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized folder structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and the "convention over configuration" principles, provides an Active Record ORM, a built-in asset pipeline for CSS and JavaScript preprocessing, and an integrated testing framework.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

expressjs.com #273,395

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 6 times more popular than Express.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Express is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Korea.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Germany

Australia

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

France

Italy

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 Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ruby on Rails is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Express is more commonly used on general news, finance and banking, and restaurants sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Software/Hardware