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
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
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
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
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
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
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
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,931
MIT
Used by 21
94Health
Framework PyPI

Starlette

A lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit for building async web services and apps in Python

12,639
BSD 3
Used by 21
94Health
Tool Go

grpc-gateway

A protoc plugin that generates a reverse-proxy server, turning RESTful HTTP/JSON requests into gRPC calls from the same service definitions.

20,004
BSD 3
Used by 16
91Health
Framework PyPI

django-rest-framework

The most widely-used toolkit for building Web APIs on top of Django, with serializers, viewsets, and a built-in browsable API.

30,191
BSD 3
Used by 15
77Health
Framework npm

@apollo/server

Spec-compliant, production-ready GraphQL server for Node.js

13,954
MIT
Used by 14
73Health
Framework npm

Koa

Koa is an expressive, minimal Node.js web framework built on async functions for cleaner middleware and better error handling.

35,684
MIT
Used by 13
94Health
Framework Go

Echo

A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.

32,734
MIT
Used by 13
91Health
Framework Cargo

Actix Web

A powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust

24,846
Other
Used by 9
91Health
Framework Composer

Livewire

Build dynamic, reactive UI components for Laravel without leaving PHP

23,583
MIT
Used by 7
91Health
Tool npm

verdaccio

A lightweight, zero-config-required private npm registry with built-in caching and proxying of public registries.

17,898
MIT
Used by 7
93Health
Framework npm

oidc-provider

Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authorization server you mount into your own Node.js app.

3,818
MIT
Used by 7

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