We all know that for almost a decade, Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey held the honor of being the largest survey of people who code around the world. This year, rather than aiming to be the biggest, we set out to make our survey more representative of the diversity of programmers worldwide. This year’s survey was taken by nearly 65,000 people and that is a big ,very big number from programmer's perspective . This survey was done on various social media platform .
So this post is all about the most loved web framework in the world .
In this survey they included the developers who are developing with the web framework and have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it .
ASP.NET Core is the most loved web framework, beating out React.js. Gatsby, a newcomer on the survey, is already sitting at 5th, being loved by 60% of the respondents. Although it is amongst the most popular web frameworks, Angular.js is also considered to be the most dreaded.
1. ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core has secured the first rank in this survey with 70.7% votes and became the most loved web framework of the year .
ASP.NET Core is a free and open-source web framework and successor to ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core. It was released in 2016 .
With ASP.NET Core, you can: Build web apps and services, Internet of Things (IoT) apps, and mobile backends. Use your favorite development tools on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
2. React.js
React.js has secured the second rank in this survey with 68.9 % votes and became the second most loved web framework of the year . React is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications. It was released in 2013 for the first time . It's used for handling the view layer for web and mobile apps. React also allows us to create reusable UI components.
3. Vue.js
Vue.js has secured the third rank in this survey with 66.0% votes and became the third most loved web framework of the year . Vue.js is an open-source model–view–view model front end JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It was created by Evan You, and is maintained by him and the rest of the active core team members. It was released in 2014 for the first time . This framework uses “high decoupling”, allowing developers to progressively create user interfaces (UIs)
4. Express
Express.js, or simply 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. It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js . So basically Express provides methods to specify what function is called for a particular HTTP verb ( GET , POST , SET , etc.) and URL pattern ("Route"), and methods to specify what template ("view") engine is used, where template files are located, and what template to use to render a response
Express has secured the fourth rank in this survey with 61.9 % votes and became the fourth most loved web framework of the year . It was developed in November 2010 .
5. Gatsby
Gatsby has secured the fifth rank in this survey with 60.7% votes and became the fifth most loved web framework of the year . Gatsby provides development teams an open source frontend framework for creating rich, optimized websites and a cloud platform.
It's relatively easy to learn, and if you're able to write solid JavaScript code, you're good to go. Gatsby aims to behave like a regular React application and uses its components which you can reuse and share throughout your project.
6. Spring
The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform.
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform.
Spring has secured the sixth rank in this survey with 57.7% votes and became the sixth most loved web framework language of the year . Spring was developed in 2002 . Spring is a lightweight framework. It can be thought of as a framework of frameworks because it provides support to various frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate.
7. Django
Django is a Python-based free and open-source web framework that follows the model–template–views architectural pattern. It is maintained by the Django Software Foundation, an American independent organization established as a 501 non-profit.
Django has secured the seventh rank in this survey with 55.3% votes and became the seventh most loved web framework of the year . Django was developed in 2005 .
8. Flask
Flask has secured the eighth rank in this survey with 54.4% votes and became the seventh most loved web framework of the year . Flask is a micro web framework written in Python. It is classified as a micro framework because it does not require particular tools or libraries. It has no database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other components where pre-existing third-party libraries provide common functions. First released in 2010 .
9. Angular
Angular has secured the ninth rank in this survey with 54.0% votes and became the ninth most loved web framework of the year . Angular is a TypeScript-based free and open-source web application framework led by the Angular Team at Google and by a community of individuals and corporations. Angular is a complete rewrite from the same team that built AngularJS. It was released in 2016. It implements core and optional functionality as a set of TypeScript libraries that you import into your applications.It unites the declarative templates, dependency injection, the end to end tooling and integrated the top perform to resolve the development challenges of developers.
10. Laravel
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern and based on Symfony.
Laravel has secured the tenth rank in this survey with 51.4% votes and became the tenth most loved web framework of the year . It's a web framework that handles many things that are annoying to build yourself, such as routing, templating HTML, and authentication.
