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

85Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,493
MIT
Used by 158
91Health
Tool PyPI

Uvicorn

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

10,993
BSD 3
Used by 83
50Health
Library npm

cors

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

6,195
MIT
Used by 79
91Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

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

102,676
MIT
Used by 78
90Health
Framework npm

Hono

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

32,364
MIT
Used by 60
50Health
Library npm

cookie-parser

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

2,030
MIT
Used by 52
85Health
Library npm

Multer

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

12,087
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.

16,561
Apache 2.0
Used by 40
85Health
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.

676
MIT
Used by 37
82Health
Library npm

body-parser

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

5,499
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.

40,666
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.

21,838
BSD 3
Used by 35
90Health
Library npm

@hono/zod-validator

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

993
MIT
Used by 34
88Health
Tool PyPI

Gunicorn

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

10,686
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.

2,805
MIT
Used by 33
81Health
Framework PyPI

Flask

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

74,802
BSD 3
Used by 28
92Health
Framework Cargo

axum

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

27,254
MIT
Used by 28
92Health
Framework npm

NestJS

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

76,743
MIT
Used by 27
91Health
Framework npm

Fastify

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

37,205
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.

91,218
BSD 3
Used by 24
52Health
Library Cargo

Tower

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

4,304
MIT
Used by 24
77Health
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.

89,268
MIT
Used by 22
81Health
Library Go

chi

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

22,891
MIT
Used by 22
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,931
MIT
Used by 21

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