Zend Framework Alternatives

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Padrino is a Ruby web framework built upon the library Sinatra. Sinatra is a DSL designed to create simple and performant applications written in Ruby. Padrino is uses Sinatra at its core and builds upon it to create a framework take makes it even easier and faster to create advanced web applications with Ruby. Padrino is designed to be agnostic and provides full support for many popular testing, templating, mocking, and data storage choices. It also provides generators that makes it easy to create, models, controllers and application scaffolding. On top of that Padrino provides functionality found in most frameworks including solutions for assets, forms, mail, caching, administration and logging.

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.

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.

Amber is a web framework written in the programming language Crystal that makes building web applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. The Amber Framework provides productivity and happiness through a powerful CLI and familiar design patterns seen in Kemal, Rails, Phoenix and other popular frameworks. With the Amber Framework you can build blazing fast web applications that your users will love.

PHP Microsite Boilerplate is a PHP framework to create simple, yet strongly functional, fast, and secure websites on basically every environment. PHP Microsite Boilerplate provides a simple starting block without installation of multiple dependencies and exhausting setup and configuration process. Allowing people to focus on building their website and simply host on cheap share hosting, cloud instances and hardware.

Momentum is an open-source framework for building enterprise server-side Deno applications in TypeScript. It provides the paradigms and design patterns to guide developers to create robust, scalable, and enterprise-grade applications. By focusing on a batteries-optional approach, Momentum provides a strong core that is easily extendable into a rich developer experience via dependency injection modules. While the framework is opinionated by design, this modular system aims to be unobtrusive and to allow developers to create abstraction layers over any codebase or third-party modules.