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Ruby on Rails is an iconic, free and open source, server-side web application framework released under the liberal MIT license. The Ruby-based framework has helped millions of developer make their ideas a reality. The framework is opinionated and promotes best standards and practices for web development. When combining that with a community that is open, helpful and guiding, it's not hard to see why Ruby on Rails is one of the most loved web application frameworks to this day. Ruby on Rails is also used by industry giants like Basecamp, HEY, GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitch, SoundCloud, Hulu, Zendesk, Square, Cookpad.

Sinatra is a free and open source DSL library for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. Sinatra is loved by many due to its simplicity and ease-of-user. For Ruby developers, Sinatra is an alternative to web application frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Merb, Nitro, and Camping.

Scalatra is a simple, accessible and free web micro-framework. It combines the power of the JVM with the beauty and brevity of Scala, helping you quickly build high-performance web sites and APIs.

Laravel is an extremely popular, free and open source web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. The framework is written in PHP and provides a developer experience that rival most web application frameworks on the market today. The structure and built-in features of Laravel allows developers to build web applications faster. Instead of setting up tooling and configuring settings, developers can focus on the important task at hand, making their ideas into reality.

FuelPHP is a MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to build scalable web applications written in PHP. Out-of-the-box, FuelPHP supports HVMC as a part of its arcitecture. The Hierarchical-Model-View-Controller (HMVC) pattern is a direct extension to the MVC pattern that manages to solve many of the scalability issues when building applications. HMVC is a collection of traditional MVC triads operating as one application. Each triad is completely independent and can execute without the presence of any other. All requests made to triads must use the controller interface, never loading models or libraries outside of their own domain. FuelPHP is released as a free and open source framework under the MIT License and can be used for commercial and personal projects alike.

CakePHP is a free and open source web framework for the programming language PHP. With CakePHP you can with ease, develop, deploy and maintain web applcations. CakePHP provides a sound structure that allow you to create organized applications that can scale and adapt as your project grows. Out of the box, CakePHP provides features like bake script, a rich query API, short RL syntax, database support for MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and more. It also includes features that make you app easier to develop such as automatic code generation, database migrations, fast and flexible templating language, and localization.