Best Web Development Frameworks in 2024

The web framework is designed to fortify the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs. Frameworks are, in short, libraries that avail you to develop your application more expeditious and smarter.
The web framework preserves time, makes the development process going more expeditious because developers do not waste time writing thousands of lines of code to create common things that have been already created, they can fixate on making the project unique. 
The web framework will provide ease of maintenance and application security.


 

Here is the list of best Web Development Frameworks in 2021,

Java Web Frameworks

1. Spring:

The Spring Framework is a potent, lightweight web application development framework to develop complex web applications that require high performance. The core features of the Spring Framework enable Java developers to engender enterprise-level applications with facileness.

Spring provides many modules, like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Core, Spring Security, Spring Transaction, Spring ORM, etc. that are used in enterprise applications. 


2. Vaadin:

Vaadin is the only framework that allows us to write UI 100% in Java without getting bogged down in JS, HTML, and CSS. If we prefer, we can additionally engender layouts in HTML. Vaadin apps run on the server and handle all communication automatically and securely. Building on the vigorous Java ecosystem, Vaadin works with your favorite IDEs, implements, and libraries

3. Spark:

Spark is a micro web framework for Java. Spark aims for simplicity and provides only a minimal set of features. However, it provides everything needed to build a web application in a few lines of Java code. Spark is built around Java 8 Lambda Expression philosophy, making it less verbose than most applications inscribed in other Java frameworks.

Example:- https://www.knowledgefactory.net/2020/12/building-restful-api-with-spark-java.html

4. Dropwizard:

Dropwizard is an open-source Java framework for the expeditious development of REST APIs.Dropwizard allows a developer to build an initial project very expeditious. This avails the application to be packaged in a way that allows it to be facilely installed on the production environment as a stand-alone service. 

Dropwizard comes with the fundamental package of components or libraries needed to develop RESTful web services, so you don't require to include and configure each of them discretely.

5.Quarkus:

Quarkus is a Java framework designed to run within containers. Fixating on expeditious start-up times and low memory utilization making it more felicitous to run within container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.Quarkus supports many industry-standard libraries such as Hibernate, Kubernetes, RESTEasy, and Eclipse MicroProfile. 

It uses JAX-RS for the REST endpoints, JPA to preserve data models, and CDI for dependency injections.


6. Jersey:

Jersey framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java. It provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS Reference Implementation.



JavaScript Frameworks

1. Angular:

One of the most puissant, efficient, and open-source JavaScript frameworks is Angular. Google operates this framework and is implemented to utilize for developing a Single Page Application (SPA). It extends the HTML into the application and interprets the attributes to perform data binding.

Example:- 
  1. Spring Boot + Angular 10 + Mongo DB CRUD: Full-stack development foundation
  2. Angular 10 + Node.js + MongoDB CRUD application:MEAN stack development

2.React.js:

React.js is an open-source JavaScript library that is used for building user interfaces specifically for single-page applications. React allows developers to create large web applications that can change data, without reloading the page. The main purpose of React is to be fast, scalable, and simple. It works only on user interfaces in the application.

Example:-
Vue.js is an open-source, progressive JavaScript framework for building utilizer interfaces. Vue fortifies the component-based approach to building web apps – it includes single-file components that are independent and loosely coupled to enable better code reuse and more expeditious development.

Example:- 
Ember.js is an open-source, free JavaScript client-side framework utilized for developing web applications. It allows building client-side JavaScript applications by providing a consummate solution that contains data management and an application flow.

5. Express:

Express, is a back-end web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs.

Example:-

Python Web Frameworks

1. Django:

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that inspirits expeditious development. It takes care of much of the hassle of Web development. It’s free and open source.

2. Flask:

Flask is a micro web framework inscribed in Python. It is relegated as a microframework because it does not require particular implements or libraries. It has no database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other components where pre-subsisting third-party libraries provide mundane functions.

3.web2py:

Free open source full-stack framework for expeditious development of expeditious, scalable, secure, and portable database-driven web-predicated applications. Inscribed and programmable in Python (version 3 and 2.7).


PHP Web Frameworks

1. Laravel:

Laravel is a web application framework with an expressive, elegant syntax. Development must be a relishable, ingenious experience to be genuinely consummating. Laravel endeavors to take the pain out of development by facilitating prevalent tasks utilized in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

2.CodeIgniter:

CodeIgniter is a puissant PHP framework with a diminutively minuscule footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to engender full-featured web applications.

3. Symfony:

Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework, designed for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to engender full-featured web applications.



Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework, which provides Ruby developers a time-saving alternative to develop code. It is an accumulation of code libraries, which offer a yare-made solution for perpetual tasks like developing tables, forms, or menus on the website.



ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC is an open-source software from Microsoft. Its web development framework coalesces the features of MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture, the most au courant conceptions, and techniques from Supple development, and the best components of the subsisting ASP.NET platform.



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