🆚 Express vs. Symfony
- 📈 Express is noticeably more popular than Symfony.
- 🌎 Express is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Symfony is more popular in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Express
SymfonyType
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.
Symfony is an open-source 
PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity.
It features over 50 decoupled packages for routing, templating, dependency injection, form validation, security, console tools, and internationalization.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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 Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
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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.