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Jersey
Eclipse Foundation
Developing RESTful web services that seamlessly support exposing your data in a variety of representation media types and abstracting away the low-level details of client-server communication is not an easy task without a good toolkit. In order to simplify the development of RESTful web services and their clients in Java, a standard and portable JAX-RS API has been designed. Jersey RESTful web services 3. x framework is an open-source, production-quality, framework that provides support for Jakarta RESTful web services 3.0. Jersey framework is more than the JAX-RS reference implementation. Jersey provides its own API that extends the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features. Track the JAX-RS API and provide regular releases of production quality reference implementations that ship with GlassFish. Provides APIs to extend Jersey & build a community of users and developers. Makes it easy to build RESTful Web services utilizing Java and the Java Virtual Machine.Starting Price: Free -
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ent
ent
An entity framework for Go. Simple, yet powerful ORM for modeling and querying data. Simple API for modeling any database schema as Go objects. Run queries, and aggregations and traverse any graph structure easily. 100% statically typed and explicit API using code generation. The latest version of Ent now includes a type-safe API enabling ordering by fields and edges. This API will soon be available in our GraphQL integration too. You can now visualize your Ent schema as an ERD with one command. The API enables you to easily integrate features such as logging, tracing, caching, and even implementing soft deletion with 20 lines of code! The Ent framework supports GraphQL using the 99designs/gqlgen library and provides various integrations. Generating a GraphQL schema for nodes and edges defined in an Ent schema. Efficient field collection to overcome the N+1 problem without requiring data loaders.Starting Price: Free -
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Nancy
Nancy
Welcome to Nancy, our main inspiration is the Sinatra framework for Ruby and, hence, Nancy was named after the daughter of Frank Sinatra. NancyFx is the name of the umbrella project that contains all the components. Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP-based services on .NET and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy path to all interactions. This means that everything in Nancy is setup to have sensible defaults and conventions, instead of making you jump through hoops and go through configuration hell just to get up and running. With Nancy you can go from zero to website in a matter of minutes. Nancy is built to run anywhere and we mean it. Right from the start, Nancy was designed to not have any dependencies on existing frameworks. Built with the .NET framework client profile, Nancy can be used pretty much wherever you want to.Starting Price: Free -
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Mono
Mono
Cross-platform, open source .NET framework. Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework as part of the .NET Foundation and based on the ECMA standards for C# and the common language runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for the development of cross-platform applications. The latest Mono release is waiting for you. We cover everything you need to know, from configuring Mono to how the internals are implemented. Our documentation is open source too, so you can help us improve it. As an open-source project, we love getting contributions from the community. File a bug report, add new code or chat with the developers. Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross-platform applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Vite
VoidZero
Get ready for a development environment that can finally catch up with you. Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects. It consists of two major parts: A dev server that provides rich feature enhancements over native ES modules, for example extremely fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR). A build command that bundles your code with Rollup, pre-configured to output highly optimized static assets for production. Vite is opinionated and comes with sensible defaults out of the box, but is also highly extensible via its Plugin API and JavaScript API with full typing support.Starting Price: Free -
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MōBrowser
TeamDev
MōBrowser is an SDK for building modern and secure cross-platform desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JavaScript GUI. It includes many tools for generating a project from different templates, building, branding, packaging, signing and notarizing, making installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, auto-updating apps, etc. With MōBrowser you can turn your website or web application into a desktop application, make desktop apps with modern HTML/CSS UI, make desktop apps with UI built using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, etc.Starting Price: $128/user/month -
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Yii
Yii PHP framework
Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. Flexible yet pragmatic, works right out of the box, and has reasonable defaults. While Yii can virtually eliminate most repetitive coding tasks, you are responsible for the real creative work. This often starts with designing the whole system to be built, in terms of some database schema. The best way to do this is by using migrations. Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead. Sane defaults and built-in tools help you write solid and secure code. Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation. Yii is a generic web programming framework, meaning that it can be used for developing all kinds of web applications using PHP. Because of its component-based architecture and sophisticated caching support, it is especially suitable for developing large-scale applications such as portals, forums, content management systems (CMS), ecommerce projects, RESTful services, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Phalcon
Phalcon
A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension. Its innovative architecture makes Phalcon the fastest PHP framework ever built. Developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. Its functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under the Phalcon namespace, ready to be used. Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server's daemon start process. Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application. The code is compiled and isn't interpreted because it's already compiled to a specific platform and processor. Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications. Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme, and patterns you already know. Writing REST servers and applications has never been easier, with no boilerplate, and simple services that fit in one file.Starting Price: Free -
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Swoole
Swoole
Powering the next-generation microservices and applications. Build high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, GRPC services with PHP and easy-to-use coroutine, fibers API. Write your next scalable async application with PHP coroutines and fibers. Compared with other async programming frameworks or software such as Nginx, Tornado, and Node.js, Swoole is a complete async solution that has built-in support for async programming via fibers/coroutines, a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP server, GRPC, process pools) and support for popular PHP clients like PDO for MySQL, Redis, and CURL. You can use sync or async, coroutine, or fiber API to write the applications or create thousands of lightweight fibers within one Linux process. Swoole enhances the efficiency of your PHP applications and brings you out of the traditional stateless model, enabling you to focus on the development of innovative products at a high scale.Starting Price: Free -
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FuelPHP
FuelPHP
The Fuel PHP framework is a fast, simple, and flexible PHP 5.4+ framework, born from the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start. It was born out of the frustrations people have with the currently available frameworks and developed with support from a community of developers. FuelPHP is extremely portable, works on almost any server, and prides itself on clean syntax. FuelPHP is an MVC (Model View Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to have full support for HMVC as part of its architecture. But we didn't stop there, we also added ViewModels (also known as presentation models) into the mix which gives you the option to add a powerful layer between the controller and the view. FuelPHP also supports a more router-based approach where you might route directly to a closure which deals with the input URI, making the closure the controller and giving it control of further execution.Starting Price: Free -
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PHPixie
PHPixie
PHPixie is easy to learn and does not rely on automatic; you will always be in charge of what's happening. Designed for speed since first release and proven by independent benchmarks. Built using components that can be used without the framework. Linear execution flow, no static code, and low coupling. Reuse and share your code via Composer as self-contained bundles. Never find yourself in an event hell ever again as event use is avoided. Database components support working with MongoDB out of the box. Designed from scratch according to SOLID principles and industry standards. PHPixie started as a micro framework and has gradually grown to be one of the most popular full-stack PHP frameworks while retaining its high performance. This is in part because of the strict architecture that avoids common pitfalls such as reliance on static methods, global scope, singletons, and other antipatterns, thus also ensuring that the code is easy to read, debug, extend, and test.Starting Price: Free -
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Fat-Free Framework
Fat-Free Framework
Speed up your development process. F3 is lightweight, easy-to-use, and fast. Most of all, it doesn't get in your way. It has a gentle learning curve so you save money on training expenses. Whether you're a novice or an expert PHP programmer, F3 will get you up and running in no time. No unnecessary and painstaking installation procedures and no complex configuration are required. A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust web applications. Full-featured toolkit, super lightweight code base with just ~90kb, and easy to learn. Take advantage of the built-in features. Develop apps that really rock. F3 gives you a solid foundation, a mature code base, and a no-nonsense approach to writing web applications. Under the hood is an easy-to-use web development tool kit, high-performance URL routing, a multi-protocol cache engine, built-in code highlighting, and support for multilingual i18n applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Pop PHP Framework
Pop PHP Framework
Pop PHP is an open source, object-oriented PHP framework with humble beginnings dating back to 2009, where it started as a small library of components. The focus of Pop is to provide a robust set of lightweight tools to assist developers with rapid application development. With a relatively small learning curve, Pop aims to help developers in getting the features they need into their applications so they can be up and running quickly. The Pop PHP Framework contains a group of core components and an additional 30+ components that serve as a toolkit for rapid application development. The framework itself has a base set of core components as well as numerous other additional components to facilitate many of the common features needed for a PHP application. The goal is so that anyone from a novice developer to an advanced programmer can install and start using the Pop PHP Framework quickly and effectively.Starting Price: Free -
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Wasp
Wasp, Inc.
Wasp is a full-stack web application framework that allows developers to build apps faster with less boilerplate code. It integrates React for frontend development, Node.js for backend, and Prisma for database management, enabling developers to focus on the essential parts of their app. The framework’s declarative syntax and simplified configuration mean that developers can describe their app's high-level structure in a .wasp file, and the system automatically handles much of the repetitive work, including routing, authentication, and API management. Wasp's goal is to simplify app development without sacrificing flexibility, making it ideal for building MVPs and production-ready applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Tauri
Tauri
Tauri is a framework that enables developers to build small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications by combining existing web front-ends with Rust-powered back-ends. It supports any JavaScript framework, so you don’t need to change your stack and leverages each operating system’s native web renderer to deliver app footprints as low as 600 KB. Deep inter-process communication bridges your JavaScript UI, Rust core logic, and native Swift or Kotlin components for seamless integration with system APIs. Security is built in from the ground up, with Rust at its center and a team-driven focus on hardening and innovation. The CLI scaffolds new projects via Bash, PowerShell, npm, Yarn, pnpm, Deno, Bun, or Cargo, and includes tools for bundling, templating, and secure defaults, all accessible through a simple “create-tauri-app” command.Starting Price: Free -
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Apache Cordova
Apache Software Foundation
Mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS. Target multiple platforms with one code base. Free and open source. Reusable code across platforms, support for offline scenarios, access native device APIs. Cordova command-line runs on Node.js and is available on NPM. Follow platform specific guides to install additional platform dependencies. Create a blank Cordova project using the command-line tool. Navigate to the directory where you wish to create your project and type cordova create <path>. After creating a Cordova project, navigate to the project directory. From the project directory, you need to add a platform for which you want to build your app. Cordova wraps your HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing you to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores. -
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Tornado Web Server
Tornado
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user. Tornado is different from most Python web frameworks. It is not based on WSGI, and it is typically run with only one thread per process. While some support of WSGI is available in the tornado.wsgi module, it is not a focus of development and most applications should be written to use Tornado’s own interfaces (such as tornado.web) directly instead of using WSGI. In general, Tornado code is not thread-safe. Tornado is integrated with the standard library asyncio module and shares the same event loop (by default since Tornado 5.0). In general, libraries designed for use with asyncio can be mixed freely with Tornado. -
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Spring Framework
Spring
Spring makes programming Java quicker, easier, and safer for everybody. Spring’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it the world's most popular Java framework. Spring’s flexible libraries are trusted by developers all over the world. Spring delivers delightful experiences to millions of end-users every day—whether that’s streaming TV, online shopping, or countless other innovative solutions. Spring’s flexible and comprehensive set of extensions and third-party libraries let developers build almost any application imaginable. At its core, Spring Framework’s Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) features provide the foundation for a wide-ranging set of features and functionality. Whether you’re building secure, reactive, cloud-based microservices for the web, or complex streaming data flows for the enterprise, Spring has the tools to help.Starting Price: Free -
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CakePHP
CakePHP
The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.3.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. While CakePHP 4 contains a number of breaking changes we have prepared an exhaustive migration guide covering all the deprecated and removed features as well as highlighting the shiny new features. CakeDC, the commercial entity behind the CakePHP framework, was established by Larry Masters, the founder of CakePHP. CakeDC offers CakePHP development, consultancy, CakePHP training and code review Services. From startups and social networks to e-commerce and enterprise-level applications, CakeDC provides the highest quality CakePHP development available. The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks.Starting Price: Free -
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Corona
Corona Labs
Select from numerous plugins which extend the Corona core for features like in-app advertising, analytics, media, and much more. Develop for mobile, desktop, and connected TV devices with just one code base. Corona speeds up the development process. Update your code, save the changes, and instantly see the results in our instant-update Simulator. When you're ready to test on real devices, build and deploy your app just once and then see code/assets update automatically, all over your local network. It's like magic. From bleeding-fast OpenGL graphics to the lightweight scripting power of Lua, Corona is optimized for performance at every core level. With Corona, your apps are automatically compiled at build time, streamlined for performance and stability. Corona's source code is now open for developers to add features to that they need and even contribute back to the core product.Starting Price: Free -
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.NET
Microsoft
Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps. Build native apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows from a single codebase. You can write your .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic. Your skills, code, and favorite libraries apply anywhere you use .NET. You can learn more about what .NET can do with these free videos. .NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community.Starting Price: Free -
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Jinja
Jinja
Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document.Starting Price: Free -
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Jetpack Compose
Google
Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.Starting Price: Free -
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Wisej.NET
Ice Tea Group
Wisej.NET provides a platform and set of tools designed to ease the burden of developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining complex AI-powered business software. It bridges the gap between traditional WinForms-style desktop applications and the web by empowering developers to leverage their existing .NET and C# or VB.NET) skills. Developers are able to use the tools they are familiar with, like a pixel-perfect design surface and drag-and-drop controls with the languages they are comfortable with (C# or VB.NET) to build real-time web applications without having to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. They can stay in their favorite IDE like Visual Studio to take advantage of features like IntelliSense, integrated debugging, design surfaces and source control integration. Front-end developers can leverage their knowledge of web technologies to augment applications and seamlessly integrate third-party packages like HTML5 charting libraries and ASP.NET controls.Starting Price: $990 -
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Xamarin
Microsoft
Free. Cross-platform. Open source. An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. Use .NET and C# to create native apps for the billions of Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows devices around the world. Add to that sharing code with any .NET app, empowering you to be more productive and build apps faster than ever across all platforms. Ready to take code sharing to the next level? Xamarin.Forms is an open source mobile UI framework from Microsoft for building iOS, Android, & Windows apps with .NET from a single shared codebase. Whether you want a consistent look across platforms or prefer native look and feel, Xamarin.Forms will get you up and running in no time. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. Xamarin extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows. -
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AdonisJS
AdonisJS
AdonisJS includes everything you need to create a fully functional web app or an API server. So stop wasting hours downloading and assembling hundreds of packages. Use AdonisJS and be productive from day one. AdonisJS is not a minimalist framework. To give your projects a head start, we pack many baseline features within the core of the framework. AdonisJS has a feature-rich routing layer with support for route groups, subdomain-based routing, and resource resources. Controllers are first-class citizens in AdonisJS. They help you remove the inline route handlers to dedicated controller files. Along with the standard body parser, the support for managing file uploads is baked into the framework core. The schema-based validator of AdonisJS provides you with both runtime validations and static type safety. Create traditional-style server-rendered web apps using the home-grown template engine of AdonisJS. -
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LoopBack
LoopBack
A highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices. A brand new LoopBack core to deliver great extensibility and flexibility written in TypeScript/ES2017. Create powerful APIs easily with a new creative experience for defining REST APIs and handling API requests/responses. A new, improved programming model with dependency injection and new concepts such as components, mixins, repositories, etc. make this the most extensible version yet. The LoopBack 4 CLI is a command-line interface that can scaffold a project or extension. The CLI provides the fastest way to get started with a LoopBack 4 project that adheres to best practices. LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. Access data from major relational databases, MongoDB, SOAP, and REST APIs. Incorporate model relationships and access controls for complex APIs. -
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Spring Boot
VMware Tanzu
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need minimal Spring configuration. Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration. Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies to simplify your build configuration. Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries whenever possible. -
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Micronaut
Micronaut Framework
Your application startup time and memory consumption aren’t bound to the size of your codebase, resulting in a monumental leap in startup time, blazing fast throughput, and a minimal memory footprint. When building applications with reflection-based IoC frameworks, the framework loads and caches reflection data for every bean in the application context. Built-in cloud support including discovery services, distributed tracing, and cloud runtimes. Quick configuration of your favorite data-access layer and the APIs to write your own. Realize benefits quickly by using familiar annotations in the way you are used to. Easily spin up servers and clients in your unit tests and run them instantaneously. Provides a simple, compile-time, aspect-oriented programming API that does not use reflection. -
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Fastify
Fastify
An efficient server implies a lower cost of the infrastructure, a better responsiveness under load and happy users. How can you efficiently handle the resources of your server, knowing that you are serving the highest number of requests possible, without sacrificing security validations and handy development? Enter Fastify. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and powerful plugin architecture, inspired by Hapi and Express. As far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town.