Chart of Backend Web Frameworks 2021
February 26, 2021
Find tutorials for many of these frameworks at my website, devNursery.com
There are a lot of frameworks out there this is just a list of as many I was willing to research and list.
Each one is labeled based on my judgement on whether it’s workflow is more Express like (minimalist) or Rails like (Robust) so you can find the framework that matches your style in your language.
After the list I added some links to some articles to find even more. Enjoy!
| Framework | Language | Key Words |
|---|---|---|
| Express | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Koa | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Fastify | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Merver | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Polka | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Sails | NodeJS | Robust |
| Nest | NodeJS/TS | Robust |
| FoatTS | NodeJS/TS | Robust |
| AdonisJS | NodeJS | Robust |
| Meteor | NodeJS | Robust |
| Loopback | NodeJS | Robust |
| Hapi | NodeJS | Minimalist |
| Derby | NodeJS | Robust |
| Total | NodeJS | Robust |
| Oak | DenoJS | Minimalist |
| Pogo | DenoJS | Minimalist |
| Laravel | PHP | Robust |
| Slim | PHP | Minimalist |
| Django | Python | Robust |
| Flask | Python | Minimalist |
| FastAPI | Python | Minimalist |
| Pyramid | Python | Robust |
| Bottle | Python | Minimalist |
| CherryPy | Python | Minimalist |
| Web2Py | Python | Robust |
| Falcon | Python | Minimalist |
| TurboGears | Python | Robust |
| Rails | Ruby | Robust |
| Sinatra | Ruby | Minimalist |
| Hanami | Ruby | Robust |
| Grape | Ruby | Minimalist |
| Buffalo | Go | Robust |
| Revel | Go | Minimalist |
| Mux | Go | Minimalist |
| Echo | Go | Minimalist |
| Rocket | Rust | Robust |
| Actix | Rust | Robust |
| Warp | Rust | Minimalist |
| Nickel | Rust | Minimalist |
| Luminous | Clojure | Minimalist |
| Phoenix | Elixir | Robust |
| Chicago Boss | Erlang/Elixir | Robust |
| Nitrogen | Erlang | Minimalist |
| Zotonic | Erlang | Robust |
| Amber | Crystal | Robust |
| Kemal | Crystal | Minimalist |
| Lucky | Crystal | Robust |
| Jester | Nim | Minimalist |
| Spring | Java/Kotlin | Robust |
| kTor | Kotlin | Minimalist |
| Javalin | Kotlin | Minimalist |
| Play | Java/Scala | Robust |
| Grails | Java/Groovy | Robust |
| Vapor | Swift | Minimalist |
| Kitura | Swift | Minimalist |
| Aqueduct | Dart | Robust |
| Angel | Dart | Robust |
| Rikulo | Dart | Robust |
| Criollo | Objective-C/Swift | Minimalist |
| IHP | Haskell | Robust |
| Obelisk | Haskell | Robust |
| ASP.NET | C#/F#/VB.net | Robust |
| Tinkerbell | Haxe | Minimalist |
| Treefrog | C++ | Robust |
| Wt | C++ | Robust |
| Kore | C | Minimalist |
| facil.io | C | Minimalist |
| sph-web-app | Scheme | Minimalist |
| Catapault | Scheme | Minimalist |
| Catalyst | Perl | Robust |
| Mojolicious | Perl | Minimalist |
| Dancer | Perl | Minimalist |
| Cro | Raku | Minimalist |