Packages

Web Frameworks & API Servers Packages

Server-side web frameworks and HTTP API servers for building backends and REST APIs (Express, FastAPI, Django, Laravel, Actix).

246 packages

Packages in Web Frameworks & API Servers

90Health
Framework npm

Express

The fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

69,573
MIT
Used by 158
90Health
Tool PyPI

Uvicorn

A lightning-fast ASGI server for Python, built on uvloop and httptools.

11,034
BSD 3
Used by 83
49Health
Library npm

cors

Node.js CORS middleware for Express and Connect that sets standards-compliant headers to control cross-origin browser access.

6,194
MIT
Used by 79
92Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

A modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic validation, serialization, and interactive docs.

104,064
MIT
Used by 78
89Health
Framework npm

Hono

A small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards that runs identically everywhere.

32,649
MIT
Used by 60
49Health
Library npm

cookie-parser

Express middleware that parses HTTP Cookie headers into req.cookies, with support for signed and JSON-encoded cookie values.

2,032
MIT
Used by 52
86Health
Library npm

Multer

Streamlined multipart/form-data file upload handling for Express and Node.js APIs.

12,088
MIT
Used by 44
95Health
Framework PyPI

aiohttp

Asynchronous HTTP client and server framework for Python's asyncio, covering both API calls and building web/WebSocket services.

16,588
Apache 2.0
Used by 40
81Health
Library npm

@hono/node-server

The official Node.js adapter that runs your Hono application on a native Node HTTP server using web-standard APIs.

682
MIT
Used by 37
86Health
Library npm

body-parser

Node.js body-parsing middleware that turns raw HTTP request bodies into ready-to-use req.body objects.

5,500
MIT
Used by 36
90Health
Framework npm

tRPC Server

Build end-to-end typesafe APIs in TypeScript with no schemas, no code generation, and zero runtime bloat.

40,718
MIT
Used by 35
49Health
Library Go

mux

A lightweight, http.Handler-compatible Go router that matches requests by path, host, method, headers, and query, and can reverse them back into URLs.

21,836
BSD 3
Used by 35
91Health
Library npm

@hono/zod-validator

Type-safe request validation middleware for Hono, powered by Zod schemas.

1,000
MIT
Used by 34
85Health
Tool PyPI

Gunicorn

A fast, lightweight pre-fork WSGI and ASGI HTTP server for running Python web apps in production on UNIX.

10,707
MIT
Used by 33
69Health
Library npm

compression

Node.js middleware that transparently gzip-, deflate-, or Brotli-compresses HTTP responses for Express and raw http servers.

2,806
MIT
Used by 33
83Health
Framework PyPI

Flask

A lightweight WSGI web framework for Python that scales from a single file to complex applications.

75,030
BSD 3
Used by 28
91Health
Framework Cargo

axum

Ergonomic and modular HTTP routing and request-handling framework for Rust, built on Tokio, Hyper, and Tower.

27,581
MIT
Used by 28
93Health
Framework npm

NestJS

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and maintainable server-side applications in TypeScript.

76,893
MIT
Used by 27
90Health
Framework npm

Fastify

A fast and low-overhead web framework for Node.js, built around schema-based validation and a plugin architecture

37,291
MIT
Used by 25
87Health
Framework PyPI

Django

The high-level Python web framework that turns database models into secure, working web applications in record time.

91,575
BSD 3
Used by 24
51Health
Library Cargo

Tower

Modular, reusable Rust components for building async network clients and servers

4,325
MIT
Used by 24
85Health
Library Go

chi

A lightweight, idiomatic Go HTTP router built entirely on net/http, for composing middleware and mounting REST APIs without a framework.

22,991
MIT
Used by 23
78Health
Framework Go

Gin

A high-performance HTTP web framework for Go, built on a zero-allocation radix-tree router with an Express.js-style API.

89,424
MIT
Used by 22
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,975
MIT
Used by 21

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