Play Framework Alternatives

Sails.js is a JavaScript framework that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to resemble the MVC architecture from frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the more modern, data-oriented style of web app development. The framework is suited for building applications with realtime features.

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.

Build powerful, scalable applications, with minimal overhead and full out-of-the-box functionality with Hapi. It's a free and open-source JavaScript framework for Node.js that is developed for enterprise-grade applications. Companies like Walmart, Brave and Condé Nast build web-services with Hapi and rely on it at scale.

NestJS is a free and open source JavaScript framework for building scalable Node.js web applications. The framework uses modern JavaScript and is built with TypeScript. NestJS is utilizing a multi paradigm model including Object Oriented Programming, Functional Programming and Functional Reactive Programming.

Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast, secure web applications without sacrificing flexibility, usability, or type safety.

With Smithy you can build WebAssembly applications written in Rust. Smithy.rs is a web framework that makes it easy to write web applications using idiomatic Rust.

A powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust. With Actix.rs you can forget about stringly typed objects, from request to response, everything has types. Actix provides a lot of features out of box. HTTP/2, logging, etc and is easily extensible. Allowing you to create your own libraries that any Actix application can use.

Gotham.rs is a flexible web framework written in Rust, it promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

Nickel.rs is a micro framework for writing web applications in Rust.

Yew is a modern Rust framework for creating multi-threaded front-end web apps with WebAssembly. It features a component-based framework similar to that of React and Elm, which makes it easy to create interactive UIs. Yew.rs achieves great performance by minimizing DOM API calls and by helping developers easily offload processing to the background using web workers. While providing full interoperability with JavaScript, allowing developers to leverage NPM packages and integrate with existing JavaScript applications.

Seed is a frontend Rust framework for creating fast and reliable web apps with an elm-like architecture. Seed provides all the benefits of Rust and macro based syntax, with a minimal overhead, configuration, and boilerplate. The framework is easy to pickup thanks to the clear documentation which is accessible to developers whether they are familiarity with Rust, or not.

AdonisJS is a Node.js web framework designed for building micro-services with JavaScript and Typescript. The framework provides an elegant syntax and and the tools that gives developers the confidence to build structured projects at scale. AdonisJS also includes its own ORM called Lucid, which is an implementation of Active Record, written in JavaScript. The framework will make anyone coming from Laravel or Ruby on Rails to feel right at home in the JavaScript eco-system.