Web Frameworks & API Servers Packages
Server-side web frameworks and HTTP API servers for building backends and REST APIs (Express, FastAPI, Django, Laravel, Actix).
Packages in Web Frameworks & API Servers
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hyper
A fast, low-level HTTP client and server library for Rust supporting HTTP/1 and HTTP/2
Starlette
A lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit for building async web services and apps in Python
http-proxy-middleware
The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.
cors
A spec-compliant, configurable CORS middleware for Go's net/http, with drop-in compatibility for most Go web frameworks.
vercel_runtime
The official Rust runtime for writing and deploying serverless functions on Vercel.
grpc-gateway
A protoc plugin that generates a reverse-proxy server, turning RESTful HTTP/JSON requests into gRPC calls from the same service definitions.
@nestjs/swagger
The official NestJS module that generates OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation from your controllers and DTOs
swagger-ui-express
Serves interactive Swagger UI API documentation directly from your Express app based on a Swagger/OpenAPI JSON or YAML document.
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.
tower-http
A collection of Tower middleware and utilities for building HTTP clients and servers in Rust
@apollo/server
Spec-compliant, production-ready GraphQL server for Node.js
@apidevtools/swagger-parser
Parses, validates, and dereferences Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.x specs in Node.js and browsers
@fastify/cors
Official Fastify plugin that adds configurable CORS headers and preflight handling to any Fastify API.
Koa
Koa is an expressive, minimal Node.js web framework built on async functions for cleaner middleware and better error handling.
Echo
A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.
drf-spectacular
Sane, flexible OpenAPI 3.0/3.1/3.2 schema generation for Django REST Framework
@nestjs/throttler
The official NestJS rate-limiting module for Express, Fastify, GraphQL, WebSockets, and RPC
whitenoise
Radically simplified static file serving for WSGI and Django apps, with zero external dependencies.
asgiref
Async/sync bridging utilities and the reference toolkit behind the ASGI spec, maintained by the Django project.
@nestjs/event-emitter
Event-driven architecture for NestJS, built on EventEmitter2
django-cors-headers
Configurable CORS headers middleware for Django applications
busboy
A fast, streaming parser for multipart/form-data and URL-encoded HTTP request bodies in Node.js.
@fastify/static
A Fastify plugin that serves static files and directories as fast as possible, with pre-compressed assets, custom caching, and directory listings built in.
Actix Web
A powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust
