🆚 Express vs. Ruby on Rails
- 📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than Express.
- 🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Express is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Korea.
Express
Ruby on RailsType
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 web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing 
CSS and 
JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.
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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.
- 🥇 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
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Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.