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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Ruby on Rails

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The top open-source alternatives to Ruby on Rails are Laravel, Django, and ExpressJS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
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    • Open Source

    #PHP Framework #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 240 social mentions

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    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
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    • Open Source

    #Frameworks (Full Stack) #Web Frameworks #Python Web Framework 15 social mentions

  3. Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple
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    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework #JavaScript 468 social mentions

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    a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Frameworks (Full Stack) #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 42 social mentions

  5. A Fully Baked PHP Framework
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    #Frameworks (Full Stack) #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 10 social mentions

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    Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools #PHP MVC Framework 12 social mentions

  7. The Rapid Development Framework for PHP
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    • Open Source

    #Frameworks (Full Stack) #Web Frameworks #MVC Framework 10 social mentions

  8. Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PHP Framework #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools

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    An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM
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    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools #PHP MVC Framework 6 social mentions

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    Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools #PHP MVC Framework 34 social mentions

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    Next generation web framework for node.js
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools #MVC Framework 40 social mentions

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    Server Framework for Node.js
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools #PHP MVC Framework 29 social mentions

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  1. Stan Bright avatar
    Stan Bright
    · 5 months ago
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    The #1 Web Development framework in the world. There are others that might be more powerful for SPAs or machine learning, or pure response time speed; however, with regards to Web Development, RoR keeps being number one.