Web Frameworks are software frameworks that are designed to help create Web apps, Web APIs and other resources. Web Frameworks help us solve two of the major hurdles of developing web apps – templates and routing. Now that we know what web frameworks are, lets get into finding out the top 10. We haven’t ranked any of the frameworks listed below and their order is just random.
Django
Django is a high-level web framework for the Python programming language. It follows the Batteries included policies which means that all the services required to develop a web app are included. Django is fast, secure, versatile and scalable.
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a web framework provided by Microsoft and was launched in 2002. The web apps created can be written in a variety of languages like C#, J# & VB.Net. Flexibility and maturity are the most notable advantages of this framework. ASP.NET also has a big community of developers so any issue you face might already be solved.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a modern web framework that provides the developer with all the requirements to build their application. It has been around since 2004 and hence has a large community. As the name suggests the language used to code in this framework is Ruby. Many big services such as Basecamp, Airbnb and GitHub have used Ruby on Rails to run and maintain their sites.
Laravel
Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework. It is also easy to understand and reuses components from other frameworks thus saving time in designing the web application. After the creation of Artisan, a Command-Line Interface, this framework shot up in popularity.
CakePHP
As you guessed CakePHP is another open-source PHP web framework. The number of software requirements to use this framework is minimal because they also follow the batteries included policies. Some notable features of CakePHP are the MVC architecture, easy configuration, CRUD operations and many more.
Angular JS
Angular JS is an open-source javascript framework that has been developed by Google and a few other individuals. AngularJS is the frontend part of the MEAN stack, consisting of MongoDB database, Express.js web application server framework, Angular.js itself, and Node.js server runtime environment. It has been used majorly to create Single page applications.
Phoenix
Phoenix is a web framework written in the programming language Elixir. It uses the MVC architecture like CakePHP and a few others. Phoenix offers productivity, stability and performance at the same time. Simplicity and speed are the major features of this framework. However, Phoenix isn’t mature yet and has a very small community of developers so there are very few packages out there for you.
Express
Express or Expressjs is a popular unopinionated web framework, written in JavaScript and hosted within the Node.js runtime environment. Expressjs is also a major component in the MEAN stack. Express also does not define the best possible way to do something, hence, it is very flexible.
Flask
Flask is another python based web framework but is quite different from Django. It is a light weight framework and doesn’t ship with many services. Hence, simpler web apps tend to use this. However, the Flask community has created several packages that you can use along with the default ones. This makes Flask extremely flexible.
Spring
The spring framework is the most used framework for enterprise Java. Spring is a very light weight framework at about 2MB for the basic version. Some well known and frequently used features of spring include Transaction management, Dependency injection and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).
Conclusion
I hope this article gave you an insight into the word of web frameworks and acquainted you with a few new ones.
Happy Learning !!! 😃
