Most Popular Backend Frameworks - 2012/2024

Most Popular Backend Frameworks (2012/2024)

In this video evolution of the most popular Backend Frameworks from December 2011 to January 2024 (last available data). Data and popularity are calculated based on the number of Stars of the repositories exported from GitHub Archive.

In January 2024 the Most Popular Backend Frameworks are: Laravel, Django, Spring, Flask, ExpressJS

Data source: Github. Data and popularity are calculated based on the number of Stars of the repositories exported from GitHub Archive.

[Feronom]

I wouldn't call this popularity. It's number of github stars.

[stormcrowxy]

Github stars don't mean much and definietly aren't a good metric of popularity. Scanning the public repos on github/gitlab to see which frameworks they used would be better, but that would require more work ;)

[sanjanaghosh]

Didn't know php was still alive 😅

[abhijeetkumar]

I think django will continue to dominate.

[nokky]

Gin - 74.7k
Spring Boot - 72.1k
FastAPI - 69.2k
Strapi is not a backend framework.