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SvelteKit
SvelteKit
SvelteKit is a framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte. It addresses common development challenges by providing solutions for routing, server-side rendering, data fetching, service workers, TypeScript integration, and more. SvelteKit apps are server-rendered by default, offering excellent first-load performance and SEO benefits, but can transition to client-side navigation to enhance user experience. The framework is designed to grow with developers, allowing them to start simple and add new features as needed. SvelteKit leverages Vite for a fast and feature-rich development experience, including hot module replacement. In short, Svelte is a way of writing user interface components, like a navigation bar, comment section, or contact form, that users see and interact with in their browsers. The Svelte compiler converts your components to JavaScript that can be run to render the HTML for the page and to CSS that styles the page.Starting Price: Free -
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Luigi
Luigi
Luigi is an enterprise-ready micro-frontend framework designed to help developers build modular, extensible, scalable, and consistent user interfaces and web applications. It enables the decomposition of monolithic web applications into clear UI modules that reflect their underlying backend modularity, promoting a unified user experience in distributed development environments. Luigi is technology-agnostic, allowing seamless integration of UI modules from external systems and facilitating the extension of applications with additional functionalities from customers or third-party vendors in a secure manner. This approach allows the division and distribution of end-to-end feature development across multiple teams, enabling them to independently and rapidly develop, deploy, maintain, and operate their solutions. By preventing technology lock-ins, Luigi allows organizations to react quickly to new trends.Starting Price: Free -
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Wasp
Wasp, Inc.
Wasp is a full-stack web application framework that allows developers to build apps faster with less boilerplate code. It integrates React for frontend development, Node.js for backend, and Prisma for database management, enabling developers to focus on the essential parts of their app. The framework’s declarative syntax and simplified configuration mean that developers can describe their app's high-level structure in a .wasp file, and the system automatically handles much of the repetitive work, including routing, authentication, and API management. Wasp's goal is to simplify app development without sacrificing flexibility, making it ideal for building MVPs and production-ready applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Vanilla JS
Vanilla JS
Vanilla JS is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications. The Vanilla JS team takes pride in the fact that it is the most lightweight framework available anywhere; using our production-quality deployment strategy, your users' browsers will have Vanilla JS loaded into memory before it even requests your site. Vanilla JS is so popular that browsers have been automatically loading it for over a decade.Starting Price: Free -
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NiceGUI
NiceGUI
NiceGUI is an open source Python library that enables developers to create web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using only Python code. It provides a gentle learning curve while still offering the option for advanced customizations. NiceGUI follows a backend-first philosophy: it handles all the web development details, allowing developers to focus on writing Python code. This makes it ideal for a wide range of projects, including short scripts, dashboards, robotics projects, IoT solutions, smart home automation, and machine learning. The framework is built on FastAPI for backend operations, Vue.js for frontend interaction, and Tailwind CSS for styling. Developers can create buttons, dialogs, Markdown, 3D scenes, plots, and more, all within a Python environment. NiceGUI supports real-time interactivity through WebSocket connections, enabling instant updates in the browser without page reloads. It offers a variety of components and layout options, such as rows, columns, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Rio
Rio
Rio is an open source Python framework that enables developers to build modern web and desktop applications entirely in Python. Inspired by frameworks like React and Flutter, Rio introduces a declarative UI model where components are defined as Python data classes with a build() method, allowing for reactive state management and seamless UI updates. It includes over 50 built-in components adhering to Google's Material Design, facilitating the creation of professional-grade interfaces. Rio's layout system is Pythonic and intuitive, calculating each component's natural size before distributing available space, eliminating the need for traditional CSS. Developers can run applications locally or in the browser with the backend powered by FastAPI and communication handled via WebSockets.Starting Price: Free -
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Refine
Refine
Refine is an open source React-based framework designed for building data-intensive web applications such as admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools. Its headless architecture provides developers with complete control over UI and business logic, enabling seamless integration with various UI frameworks. Refine offers a zero-configuration setup, allowing developers to initiate projects swiftly using the create refine-app CLI tool. It supports over 15 backend services, including REST APIs, GraphQL, Supabase, Strapi, NestJS CRUD, Hasura, Appwrite, Firebase, and Airtable, facilitating rapid development of CRUD operations. It incorporates advanced features such as real-time data handling, authentication and authorization mechanisms, internationalization (i18n), audit logging, and customizable routing with support for Next.js and Remix.Starting Price: Free -
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Tauri
Tauri
Tauri is a framework that enables developers to build small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications by combining existing web front-ends with Rust-powered back-ends. It supports any JavaScript framework, so you don’t need to change your stack and leverages each operating system’s native web renderer to deliver app footprints as low as 600 KB. Deep inter-process communication bridges your JavaScript UI, Rust core logic, and native Swift or Kotlin components for seamless integration with system APIs. Security is built in from the ground up, with Rust at its center and a team-driven focus on hardening and innovation. The CLI scaffolds new projects via Bash, PowerShell, npm, Yarn, pnpm, Deno, Bun, or Cargo, and includes tools for bundling, templating, and secure defaults, all accessible through a simple “create-tauri-app” command.Starting Price: Free -
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Nitric
Nitric
Nitric is an open source, cloud-agnostic backend framework that enables developers to declare infrastructure as code and automate deployments using pluggable plugins. It supports multiple languages, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, and Dart. Key features include defining APIs (REST, HTTP), serverless functions, routing, authentication/authorization (OIDC-compatible), storage (object/file storage, signed URLs, bucket events), databases (e.g., managed Postgres with migrations), messaging (queues, topics, pub/sub), websockets, scheduled tasks, and secrets management. Nitric integrates with tools like Terraform or Pulumi, or lets you write your own plugins, and works with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). It also supports local development with simulated cloud environments so you can prototype, test, and iterate without incurring cloud cost. The framework emphasizes declarative security, resource access management, and portability.Starting Price: Free -
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Vuetify
Vuetify
Vuetify is an open source Vue.js component framework designed to help developers build modern, responsive, and visually consistent user interfaces using Google’s Material Design principles. It provides a comprehensive collection of pre-built, reusable UI components such as buttons, forms, navigation elements, data tables, and dialogs, all crafted to be accessible and responsive by default across different devices and screen sizes. It includes powerful features such as dynamic theming, global defaults, application layouts, and a flexible grid system, allowing developers to maintain design consistency while customizing the look and feel of their applications. It supports rapid project setup through tooling like Vite and CLI plugins, enabling developers to scaffold applications quickly and focus on functionality instead of low-level styling. Vuetify emphasizes ease of use by eliminating the need for advanced design skills, offering handcrafted components and a large API.Starting Price: Free -
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Element Plus
Element Plus
Element Plus is a Vue 3-based UI component library designed for developers, designers, and product teams to build modern, responsive web interfaces efficiently using a comprehensive set of reusable components. It provides a rich collection of encapsulated UI elements such as buttons, forms, tables, navigation components, dialogs, and data display modules, allowing developers to rapidly assemble applications without building interface elements from scratch. It follows a structured design system that helps create logically consistent, easy-to-use products while improving development efficiency through reusable code and standardized interaction patterns. Built specifically for Vue 3 and leveraging modern features like the Composition API and TypeScript support, it offers a scalable and maintainable architecture aligned with current frontend development practices.Starting Price: Free -
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PrimeVue
PrimeVue
PrimeVue is a next-generation UI component library for Vue.js that provides a comprehensive suite of reusable, customizable components, icons, blocks, and application templates to accelerate frontend development and improve productivity. It includes more than 80 ready-to-use components covering all aspects of interface design, such as forms, data tables, navigation, dialogs, and data visualization, allowing developers to build complex applications without creating UI elements from scratch. It is designed to be highly flexible and design-agnostic, offering both styled modes with prebuilt themes like Aura, Lara, or Nora, and an unstyled mode that allows full control using CSS frameworks such as Tailwind, Bootstrap, or custom styles. PrimeVue also supports responsive design, accessibility standards (WCAG compliance), and modern development practices such as TypeScript integration, modular imports, and compatibility with tools like Vite and Nuxt.Starting Price: Free -
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Quasar Framework
Quasar
Quasar is an open source Vue.js-based framework designed to help developers build high-performance, responsive applications for multiple platforms using a single codebase. It allows the creation of single-page applications, server-side rendered apps, progressive web apps, mobile applications for iOS and Android, desktop applications for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and even browser extensions, all from the same source code, eliminating the need to maintain separate projects for each platform. It includes a powerful CLI that enables rapid project setup and provides a fully configured development environment with best practices already applied, allowing developers to start building applications in minutes. Quasar offers a comprehensive UI component library with a wide range of pre-built elements such as buttons, forms, tables, dialogs, navigation components, and utilities, all designed to be responsive, accessible, and optimized for performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Apache Cordova
Apache Software Foundation
Mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS. Target multiple platforms with one code base. Free and open source. Reusable code across platforms, support for offline scenarios, access native device APIs. Cordova command-line runs on Node.js and is available on NPM. Follow platform specific guides to install additional platform dependencies. Create a blank Cordova project using the command-line tool. Navigate to the directory where you wish to create your project and type cordova create <path>. After creating a Cordova project, navigate to the project directory. From the project directory, you need to add a platform for which you want to build your app. Cordova wraps your HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing you to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores. -
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Tornado Web Server
Tornado
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user. Tornado is different from most Python web frameworks. It is not based on WSGI, and it is typically run with only one thread per process. While some support of WSGI is available in the tornado.wsgi module, it is not a focus of development and most applications should be written to use Tornado’s own interfaces (such as tornado.web) directly instead of using WSGI. In general, Tornado code is not thread-safe. Tornado is integrated with the standard library asyncio module and shares the same event loop (by default since Tornado 5.0). In general, libraries designed for use with asyncio can be mixed freely with Tornado. -
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Spring Framework
Spring
Spring makes programming Java quicker, easier, and safer for everybody. Spring’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it the world's most popular Java framework. Spring’s flexible libraries are trusted by developers all over the world. Spring delivers delightful experiences to millions of end-users every day—whether that’s streaming TV, online shopping, or countless other innovative solutions. Spring’s flexible and comprehensive set of extensions and third-party libraries let developers build almost any application imaginable. At its core, Spring Framework’s Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) features provide the foundation for a wide-ranging set of features and functionality. Whether you’re building secure, reactive, cloud-based microservices for the web, or complex streaming data flows for the enterprise, Spring has the tools to help.Starting Price: Free -
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CakePHP
CakePHP
The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.3.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. While CakePHP 4 contains a number of breaking changes we have prepared an exhaustive migration guide covering all the deprecated and removed features as well as highlighting the shiny new features. CakeDC, the commercial entity behind the CakePHP framework, was established by Larry Masters, the founder of CakePHP. CakeDC offers CakePHP development, consultancy, CakePHP training and code review Services. From startups and social networks to e-commerce and enterprise-level applications, CakeDC provides the highest quality CakePHP development available. The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks.Starting Price: Free -
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Corona
Corona Labs
Select from numerous plugins which extend the Corona core for features like in-app advertising, analytics, media, and much more. Develop for mobile, desktop, and connected TV devices with just one code base. Corona speeds up the development process. Update your code, save the changes, and instantly see the results in our instant-update Simulator. When you're ready to test on real devices, build and deploy your app just once and then see code/assets update automatically, all over your local network. It's like magic. From bleeding-fast OpenGL graphics to the lightweight scripting power of Lua, Corona is optimized for performance at every core level. With Corona, your apps are automatically compiled at build time, streamlined for performance and stability. Corona's source code is now open for developers to add features to that they need and even contribute back to the core product.Starting Price: Free -
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.NET
Microsoft
Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps. Build native apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows from a single codebase. You can write your .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic. Your skills, code, and favorite libraries apply anywhere you use .NET. You can learn more about what .NET can do with these free videos. .NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community.Starting Price: Free -
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Jinja
Jinja
Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document.Starting Price: Free -
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Horovod
Horovod
Horovod was originally developed by Uber to make distributed deep learning fast and easy to use, bringing model training time down from days and weeks to hours and minutes. With Horovod, an existing training script can be scaled up to run on hundreds of GPUs in just a few lines of Python code. Horovod can be installed on-premise or run out-of-the-box in cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Databricks. Horovod can additionally run on top of Apache Spark, making it possible to unify data processing and model training into a single pipeline. Once Horovod has been configured, the same infrastructure can be used to train models with any framework, making it easy to switch between TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, and future frameworks as machine learning tech stacks continue to evolve.Starting Price: Free -
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MōBrowser
TeamDev
MōBrowser is a framework for building native cross-platform desktop applications with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript. MōBrowser is based on Chromium and Node.js and provides built-in source code protection. It is free for non-commercial use, while commercial users receive technical support with SLAs directly from the framework engineers. -
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Jetpack Compose
Google
Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.Starting Price: Free -
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Wisej.NET
Ice Tea Group
Wisej.NET provides a platform and set of tools designed to ease the burden of developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining complex AI-powered business software. It bridges the gap between traditional WinForms-style desktop applications and the web by empowering developers to leverage their existing .NET and C# or VB.NET) skills. Developers are able to use the tools they are familiar with, like a pixel-perfect design surface and drag-and-drop controls with the languages they are comfortable with (C# or VB.NET) to build real-time web applications without having to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. They can stay in their favorite IDE like Visual Studio to take advantage of features like IntelliSense, integrated debugging, design surfaces and source control integration. Front-end developers can leverage their knowledge of web technologies to augment applications and seamlessly integrate third-party packages like HTML5 charting libraries and ASP.NET controls.Starting Price: $990 -
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Symfony
Symfony SAS
Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony. The leading PHP framework to create websites and web applications. Built on top of the Symfony Components. A set of decoupled and reusable components on which the best PHP applications are built, such as Drupal, Prestashop, and Laravel. A passionate group of over 600,000 developers from more than 120 countries, all committed to helping PHP surpass the impossible. Embracing and promoting professionalism, best practices, standardization and interoperability of applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Enhance
Enhance
Enhance ships with everything you need to build a production-ready app. Organize your pages as easily as a desktop folder. Access and store data with simple JavaScript functions. Build reusable components with HTML and scoped CSS. Add client-side interaction just where you need it. Build server-rendered custom elements that seamlessly upgrade to interactive web components. Enhance makes the right way the easy way. Start with a version that works everywhere for everyone. Incrementally upgrade interactive elements from there. The web platform has what you need and never goes out of fashion. Ditch throbbers and loading screens by removing framework bloat and authoring only the code you need. When you learn Enhance, you’re learning development approaches that will last as long as the web does. Enhance apps are designed with deployment in mind. When you're ready to launch, we've got you covered with Begin. -
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Oorian
Corvus Engineering
Oorian is a server-side Java web framework for building interactive web applications without writing JavaScript. HTML elements are Java objects with type-safe styling, events are handled with standard Java listeners, and real-time updates flow automatically via AJAX, SSE, or WebSocket—your choice per page. Rather than reinventing UI components, Oorian wraps best-of-breed JavaScript libraries (AG Grid, Syncfusion, Chart.js, and 150+ more), so you get enterprise-grade components maintained by specialists. Battle-tested in production for over 10 years, Oorian is free for non-commercial use with commercial licensing available. -
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Guidepad
Guidepad
Guidepad is a platform aimed at reducing modern software development complexity by providing development teams with common, reusable tools and an automation framework. We are modernizing enterprise software development by balancing abstraction and configurable power, providing a solution for all the personas of modern software engineering to leverage one platform across data engineering and workflow automation. Guidepad provides several key tool sets and modular abstractions for defining entity schemas, infrastructure, services, permission boundaries, and application programming interface operations as data, enabling a suite of low-code/no-code interfaces. The platform abstracts away most programming tasks as engineers don't have to build out the individual components of their system, they're able to program the system entirely (meta-level programming). Users simply create a low-code/no-code configuration and the platform converts it into software at runtime.Starting Price: $1,000 per month -
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DevReadyKit
DevReadyKit
DevReadyKit is a UI framework purpose-built for SaaS applications and developer tools dashboards, offering production-ready components crafted in React, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript, free for commercial use. It’s designed for developers and solo founders who want to skip building their frontend from scratch and instead copy, customise, and launch polished user interfaces quickly, without needing an in-house design team. Unlike generic libraries, DevReadyKit focuses on the patterns and layouts specific to SaaS and dev-tool products, dashboards, tables, charts, cards, and auth workflows, with a “ship-ready” mindset. Users can own the code (no hidden npm dependencies), customise freely, and deploy faster. The creators are actively gathering feedback, planning expanded components, dashboard templates, and perhaps a paid tier of advanced features, while the core library remains free for commercial use. -
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Xamarin
Microsoft
Free. Cross-platform. Open source. An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. Use .NET and C# to create native apps for the billions of Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows devices around the world. Add to that sharing code with any .NET app, empowering you to be more productive and build apps faster than ever across all platforms. Ready to take code sharing to the next level? Xamarin.Forms is an open source mobile UI framework from Microsoft for building iOS, Android, & Windows apps with .NET from a single shared codebase. Whether you want a consistent look across platforms or prefer native look and feel, Xamarin.Forms will get you up and running in no time. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. Xamarin extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows.
