Grails Alternatives for Self-Hosted

A framework designed to make it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala.  The Play Framework is is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture that follows a model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. While providing predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) suitable for highly-scalable applications.  Play is written in Scala and can be used for all programming languages that can be compiled into JVM bytecode.

Django is a high-level Python web development framework used for building web application at scale with speed. The framework adhere to a clean and pragmatic design that lets developers develop rapidly. Django ships as a "batteries included" framework and contains many of the features needed for most web applications such as an admin panel, an ORM and templating language. It takes much of the hassle out of web development and lets developers focus on writing their application instead of focusing on authentication, authorization and security.

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.

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.

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.

A modern, fast and highly-performant web framework written in Python. With FastAPI developers can quickly build APIs with performance on par with Node.js and Go thanks to Starlette and Pydantic.

The Falcon Web Framework is a free and open-source application framework written in Python.

Flask is a micro framework framework written in Python that can be used to build APIs, web services and web applications. Flask is designed from the bottom up to be extremely minimal and easy to use, where your whole application can fit into one single Python file. The framework includes no database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other components, by design. However pre-existing third-party libraries provide common functionality needed to build production ready applications and services.

Symfony is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled and cohesive PHP components that solve common web development problems. Instead of using these low-level components, you can use the ready-to-be-used Symfony full-stack web framework, which is based on these components, or you can create your very own framework. Symfony is released as a free and open source framework under the MIT License.

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with an extremly small footpring. The framework is built from the ground up to aid developers that want to build structured, secure and scalable web applications written in PHP. CodeIgniter is designed and developed at EllisLab and released as free and open source software under the MIT License.

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.

Koa is a free and open-source, expressive HTTP middleware framework for Node.js. Koa provides a great developer experience that makes writing web applications and APIs more enjoyable. Koa's middleware stack flows in a stack-like manner, allowing you to perform actions downstream then filter and manipulate the response upstream. Only methods that are common to nearly all HTTP servers are integrated directly into Koa's small codebase. This includes things like content negotiation, normalization of node inconsistencies, redirection, and a few others.