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What are Development Frameworks?
Development frameworks are code libraries and development tools that streamline the development process for developers that build applications. Development frameworks simplify the process of programming in different languages. There are a variety of different types of development frameworks including web development frameworks, mobile app development frameworks, frontend and backend frameworks, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Development Frameworks currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Ionic
Drifty
The Ionic Platform allows you to bring your apps to market faster with an integrated app platform built on the leading cross-platform mobile SDK. Build, secure, and deliver new mobile apps—and transform existing ones—across iOS, Android, and Web platforms from a single codebase. Full scalability—Grow from prototype to production to enterprise-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance. Better apps, everywhere—Slash your development time and costs with a platform that lets you write once and deploy anywhere—iOS, Android, and Web. The core of the Ionic development experience is Ionic Capacitor, a cross platform native runtime that runs equally well on native iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as any web browser. The big difference is that, unlike traditional native development or cross-platform approaches, the UI of a Capacitor app runs primarily in the browser.Starting Price: Free -
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Webix
Webix
JavaScript UI library and framework for speeding up web development. JS Framework for cross-platform web Apps development 102 UI widgets and feature-rich CSS / HTML5 JavaScript controls. Save at least 3000+ development hours by using ready-made widgets and UI controls. Develop Web UI 30% faster. We have accumulated the best design ideas. We have meticulously considered UX of each Webix component for five conceptual designs. Our support service specialists know everything about our library and can help you solve any problem. We also have an official support forum where you can discuss issues with our developers. By using Webix JS framework you receive an elegant and lightweight code based on object-oriented programming concepts. Associate your project with jQuery JavaScript library, MVC frameworks AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Backbone.js, third party UI extensions.Starting Price: $848 -
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.NET MAUI
Microsoft
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a framework for building modern, multi-platform, natively compiled iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps using C# and XAML in a single codebase. .NET MAUI uses the latest, modern technologies for building native apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows abstracting them into one common framework built on .NET 6. Native apps look and feel like the operating system on which they belong by default and layouts are fully adapted to each device automatically with no additional code. Platform APIs are available directly from C# to access over 60 platform features from a single cross-platform API including access to things like isolated storage, sensors, geolocation, camera, and a whole lot more with no compromises.Starting Price: Free -
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TSQL.APP
UX1 BV
TSQL.APP is a web-based SQL platform for building data-driven applications directly within SQL Server. Featuring a built-in IDE, it enables developers to create responsive web apps using SQL for backend logic and UI interactions. Key features include: Dynamic UI Components: Cards represent database records in list and form views, with customizable modals for inputs, alerts, tables, and real-time reports. Action Scripting: SQL-based action scripts define app behavior, enabling CRUD operations and complex workflows. Real-Time Interactivity: Reports auto-refresh, and audio/visual alerts provide instant user feedback. Security and Accessibility: Supports secure logins, cloud access, and file management through meta tables. Extensibility: Integrates with .NET CLR for advanced operations. TSQL.APP is ideal for building adaptable business apps with responsive data handling, streamlined workflows, and custom user interactions.Starting Price: €220 5 Developers/Users -
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Laravel
Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things. We love clean code just as much as you do. Simple, elegant syntax puts amazing functionality at your fingertips. Every feature has been thoughtfully considered to provide a wonderful developer experience. Dispatch background jobs to perform slow tasks like sending emails and generating reports while maintaining blazing fast response times. Stop sweating authentication. Laravel provides scaffolding for secure, session-based authentication, while Laravel Sanctum provides painless authentication for APIs and mobile applications. Laravel is committed to delivering the best testing experience you can imagine. No more brittle tests that are a nightmare to maintain. Beautiful testing APIs, database seeding, and painless browser testing let you ship with confidence.Starting Price: Free -
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Angular
Angular
Learn one way to build applications with Angular and reuse your code and abilities to build apps for any deployment target. For web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop. Achieve the maximum speed possible on the Web Platform today, and take it further, via Web Workers and server-side rendering. Angular puts you in control over scalability. Meet huge data requirements by building data models on RxJS, Immutable.js or another push-model. Build features quickly with simple, declarative templates. Extend the template language with your own components and use a wide array of existing components. Get immediate Angular-specific help and feedback with nearly every IDE and editor. All this comes together so you can focus on building amazing apps rather than trying to make the code work. From prototype through global deployment, Angular delivers the productivity and scalable infrastructure that supports Google's largest applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Lit
Lit
Building on top of the Web Components standards, Lit adds just what you need to be happy and productive: reactivity, declarative templates and a handful of thoughtful features to reduce boilerplate and make your job easier. Every Lit feature is carefully designed with web platform evolution in mind. Weighing in at around 5 KB (minified and compressed), Lit helps keep your bundle size small and your loading time short. And rendering is blazing fast, because Lit touches only the dynamic parts of your UI when updating — no need to rebuild a virtual tree and diff it with the DOM. Every Lit component is a native web component, with the superpower of interoperability. Web components work anywhere you use HTML, with any framework or none at all. This makes Lit ideal for building shareable components, design systems, or maintainable, future-ready sites and apps.Starting Price: Free -
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Phoenix Framework
Phoenix Framework
Build rich, interactive web applications quickly, with less code and fewer moving parts. Join our growing community of developers using Phoenix to craft APIs, HTML5 apps and more, for fun or at scale. Interact with users and know who is connected right now, across one or dozens of nodes, by using our built-in Channels and Presence technologies. Or try LiveView for a refreshing new way to develop real-time apps without the client-side complexities. At its core, Phoenix is a rock-solid web framework that improves the tried and true Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture with a fresh set of functional ideas. Phoenix puts the focus on your business domain, bringing you immediate productivity and long-term code maintainability.Starting Price: Free -
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Sencha Ext JS
Sencha
Sencha Ext JS is a comprehensive JavaScript application framework for building feature-rich, cross-browser-compatible web and mobile applications. It includes a library with 140+ high-performance customizable components, a set of tools and a powerful UI Framework. Key Features Rich UI Components – Includes a variety of pre-built UI elements such as grids and trees, menus and toolbars, forms and buttons, etc. Cross-platform compatibility - Supports major desktop and mobile web browsers including IE Firefox Chrome Safari and Opera. Data Packages – Includes data components to interact with various data sources including JSON, XML and database connections. Theming and Skinning - Allow easy skinning and theming of the UI with CSS. Development Tools - Includes an extensive set of development tools including a visual designer and debugger. Large Community - Has an active and large community of developers who provide support, extensions, etc.Starting Price: $1,295 one-time payment -
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Axon Framework
AxonIQ
Purpose-built and open source, Axon Framework provides the building blocks for modern applications using event-driven architecture (EDA) powered by domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and command query responsibility separation (CQRS). Our proven technology allows your team to evolve your application to reach business demands without unnecessary complexity.Starting Price: FREE -
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Kaizen Framework
Virtual Splat Software
Kaizen Framework is a low code, rapid application development tool. You can make web application in minutes. It will help you to cut development cost and dependency on developers. No need to write code, no compilation need, no downtime to users. And finally, as the name says "Kaizen", we are constantly updating the framework to make sure that YOU make more money in software development projects. Among many other low-code frameworks, Kaizen is a mature framework that has proven its strength by delivering a variety of applications for different industries. It's constantly evolving for the last 15+ years, with projects already being delivered in 70+ industries with around 500+ projects successfully executed, and very practical solutions. Also, it's easy to learn and deploy and you can host the application wherever you want. The kaizen framework has advanced features compared to other frameworks.Starting Price: $10 USD per user per day -
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Tekton
Tekton
Tekton is a cloud-native solution for building CI/CD systems. It consists of Tekton Pipelines, which provides the building blocks, and of supporting components, such as Tekton CLI and Tekton Catalog, that make Tekton a complete ecosystem. Tekton standardizes CI/CD tooling and processes across vendors, languages, and deployment environments. It works well with Jenkins, Jenkins X, Skaffold, Knative, and many other popular CI/CD tools. Tekton abstracts the underlying implementation so that you can choose the build, test, and deploy workflow based on your team’s requirements. Tekton lets you create CI/CD systems quickly, giving you scalable, serverless, cloud native execution out of the box.Starting Price: Free -
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Vaadin
Vaadin
Vaadin is a web app development platform for Java. It helps you build reliable web apps with great UX faster than before. Building an enterprise web app involves a lot of moving pieces. Vaadin simplifies the process with an integrated web app development platform for Java backends. Vaadin comes with all the components, frameworks, and tools you need to build a reliable, secure, app with great UX. Research shows that good user experience (UX) increases employee engagement, helps digital transformations to succeed, and avoids costly mistakes. The Vaadin Design System provides UI components and UX patterns that help you build consistently good user experiences in every app. Better yet, you can use it to build a custom design system for your organization. Vaadin comes with 45+ UI components that help you build consistent UIs fast. The theme can be customized to match your brand. Vaadin components work with screen readers and assistive devices.Starting Price: $139 per month -
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Helidon
Helidon
Helidon is a cloud-native, open‑source set of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty. Helidon Níma is the first Java microservices framework based on virtual threads. Helidon is designed to be simple to use, with tooling and examples to get you going quickly. Since Helidon is simply a collection of Java libraries running on a fast Netty core, there is no extra overhead or bloat. Helidon supports MicroProfile and provides familiar APIs like JAX-RS, CDI, and JSON-P/B. Our implementation runs on our fast Helidon Reactive WebServer. Helidon Reactive WebServer provides a modern functional programming model and runs on top of Netty. Lightweight, flexible, and reactive, the Helidon WebServer provides a simple-to-use and fast foundation for your microservices. With support for health checks, metrics, tracing, and fault tolerance, Helidon has what you need to write cloud-ready applications that integrate with Prometheus, Jaeger/Zipkin, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Vert.x
Vert.x
Handle more requests with fewer resources compared to traditional stacks and frameworks based on blocking I/O. Vert.x is a great fit for all kinds of execution environments, including constrained environments like virtual machines and containers. People told you asynchronous programming is too hard for you? We strive to make programming with Vert.x an approachable experience, without sacrifying correctness and performance. Don’t waste resources, increase deployment density and save money. You pick the model that works best for the task at hand, callbacks, promises, futures, reactive extensions, and (Kotlin) coroutines. Vert.x is a toolkit, not a framework, so it is naturally very composable and embeddable. We have no strong opinion on what your application structure should be like. Select the modules and clients you need and compose them as you craft your application.Starting Price: Free -
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GraalVM
GraalVM
Discover libraries and frameworks that work out-of-the-box with Native Image. Apply Graal, an advanced optimizing compiler, that generates faster and leaner code requiring fewer compute resources. Compile Java applications ahead of time to native binaries that start up instantly and deliver peak performance with no warmup time. Leverage the best features and libraries of popular languages in a single app with no overhead. Debug, monitor, profile, and optimize resource consumption in Java and across multiple languages. GraalVM’s high-performance JIT compiler generates optimized native machine code that runs faster, produces less garbage, and uses less CPU thanks to a battery of advanced compiler optimizations and aggressive and sophisticated inlining techniques. The end results are applications that run faster and consume fewer resources, reducing cloud and infrastructure costs.Starting Price: Free -
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Atri Framework
Atri Labs
Atri framework is a full-stack web development framework to build Progressive Web Apps. Use our visual editor to increase your productivity. You can also add your custom React code. Currently, we support Python for backend development. We are planning to add support for NodeJS soon. Our CLI provides rich support for easy deployment at your platform of choice such as GitHub Pages, AWS, etc. Atri framework comes with a suite of productivity tools such as a visual editor, asset management tools, etc. that significantly reduce development time from months to hours. Atri framework is extending the definition of full-stack to include non-web developers in the development and maintenance of an app.Starting Price: $100 per user per month -
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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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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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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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Koin
Kotzilla
Koin simplifies DI and empowers developers in the Kotlin landscape. Koin helps you build any kind of Kotlin & Kotlin multiplatform application, from Android mobile to backend Ktor server applications. Koin is built for the most demanding apps and is trusted by developers worldwide. Koin is an open source dependency injection framework tailored for Kotlin developers. With its intuitive DSL and lightweight container, Koin simplifies dependency injection for any Kotlin application and SDK. Koin framework lets you build your dependency injection in a breeze, with simple API and Kotlin DSL. Koin can help you create complex Android mobile applications, so you can focus on your business, not your tools. Koin connects on top of the Kotlin ecosystem. Using the power of Kotlin, Koin provides easy dependency injection across multiple platforms. Already used by thousands of companies in the world, Koin is ready to scale in production.Starting Price: Free -
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Nitric
Nitric
Nitric is an open source, cloud-agnostic backend framework that enables developers to declare infrastructure as code and automate deployments using pluggable plugins. It supports multiple languages, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, and Dart. Key features include defining APIs (REST, HTTP), serverless functions, routing, authentication/authorization (OIDC-compatible), storage (object/file storage, signed URLs, bucket events), databases (e.g., managed Postgres with migrations), messaging (queues, topics, pub/sub), websockets, scheduled tasks, and secrets management. Nitric integrates with tools like Terraform or Pulumi, or lets you write your own plugins, and works with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). It also supports local development with simulated cloud environments so you can prototype, test, and iterate without incurring cloud cost. The framework emphasizes declarative security, resource access management, and portability.Starting Price: Free -
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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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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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Enhance
Enhance
Enhance ships with everything you need to build a production-ready app. Organize your pages as easily as a desktop folder. Access and store data with simple JavaScript functions. Build reusable components with HTML and scoped CSS. Add client-side interaction just where you need it. Build server-rendered custom elements that seamlessly upgrade to interactive web components. Enhance makes the right way the easy way. Start with a version that works everywhere for everyone. Incrementally upgrade interactive elements from there. The web platform has what you need and never goes out of fashion. Ditch throbbers and loading screens by removing framework bloat and authoring only the code you need. When you learn Enhance, you’re learning development approaches that will last as long as the web does. Enhance apps are designed with deployment in mind. When you're ready to launch, we've got you covered with Begin. -
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Quarkus
Quarkus
Quarkus tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near-instant scale up and high-density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot. Quarkus provides a cohesive, fun-to-use, full-stack framework by leveraging a growing list of over fifty best-of-breed libraries that you love and use. A cohesive platform for optimized developer joy with unified configuration and no hassle native executable generation. Zero configs, live reload in the blink of an eye, and streamlined code for the 80% common usages, flexible for the remainder 20%. The combination of Quarkus and Kubernetes provides an ideal environment for creating scalable, fast, and lightweight applications. Quarkus significantly increases developer productivity with tooling, pre-built integrations, application services, and more. -
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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.
