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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httparse
A tiny, safe, zero-copy push parser for the HTTP/1.x protocol in Rust
express-basic-auth
Plug-and-play HTTP Basic Auth middleware for Express, with static users, custom authorizers, and timing-safe comparisons.
Deno
Secure-by-default JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built in Rust on V8
Rocket
An async web framework for Rust that uses type-safe macros for routing, request guards, and fairings to catch invalid requests before your handlers run.
hapi
A config-driven Node.js framework for building HTTP APIs and web servers with built-in validation, caching, and auth.
Django Ninja
Fast, async-ready, OpenAPI-first REST framework built on Django and Python type hints
Polka
An extremely minimal, highly performant Express.js alternative built on native Node HTTP.
Symfony DependencyInjection
Standardize and centralize how objects are constructed in your PHP application with a powerful service container.
daphne
The ASGI HTTP, HTTP/2, and WebSocket server that powers Django Channels.
NelmioApiDocBundle
Generate OpenAPI and Swagger documentation for your Symfony REST API from PHP attributes.
csurf
CSRF token middleware for Express — archived by the Express team in 2025 and no longer maintained.
Flask-RESTX
Flask extension for building fully documented REST APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI out of the box
go-socks5
A lightweight, dependency-minimal SOCKS5 proxy server library for Go with pluggable auth, DNS resolution, and rule-based access control.
http-factory
Standardized PSR-17 interfaces for creating PSR-7 HTTP messages in PHP
sessions
Gin middleware for session management with pluggable cookie, Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, GORM, and PostgreSQL backends.
express-http-proxy
Express/Connect middleware that proxies requests to another host, with promise-based hooks for decorating and filtering requests and responses.
drf-writable-nested
Writable nested model serializers for Django REST Framework, letting a single serializer create and update deeply related models in one call.
tiny-http
A tiny, dependency-light, low-level HTTP server library for Rust with blocking, thread-per-connection request handling.
gziphandler
Go middleware that transparently gzip-compresses HTTP responses for clients that support it
FastAPI CLI
The command-line tool that runs, reloads, and serves your FastAPI apps
method-override
Express/Connect middleware that lets clients override the HTTP method of a request via a header or query string.
starlette-context
Store and access per-request context data anywhere in a Starlette or FastAPI app.
express-async-handler
A tiny wrapper that catches async errors in Express route handlers and forwards them to next().
koa-logger
Development-style request logging middleware for Koa, printing colorized method, status, timing, and size for every HTTP request.
