Best web development frameworks on Reddit

30 reviews from r/Python, r/learnjavascript, r/programming and 1 more subreddit

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#1

Flask

4.8
(5)
"Flask-WTForms is recommended for form handling."
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"Flask is great for rapid prototyping and integrates well with SQLAlchemy."
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"Flask is my go-to for serious projects due to its large community and many add-ons."
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"[Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/)."
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"Flask-Restless can automatically present a REST API for SQLAlchemy models."
#2

Django

3.8
(5)
"Django is productive and saves time with its forms library and admin."
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"One install, and you're ready."
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"I do use Django quite often for clients."
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"Django is full-featured but can be painful to learn and its built-in systems aren't very useful outside of it."
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"The books your boss gave you are all at least 4 years old and terribly out-of-date. Better to go with the online documentation."
#3

Pyramid

4.3
(3)
"I've always liked Pyramid."
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"Any of them would be fine for learning."
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"Pylons is deprecated in the face of the Pyramid framework. Use that instead."
#4

Symfony

5.0
(2)
"I love Symfony (PHP) and GRID 960 (CSS) ;)"
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"Been using Symfony for a few years and finding it to be great."
#5

Laravel

5.0
(2)
"Laravel is one of the best PHP web frameworks, providing an elegant and simple framework with amazing ORM and routing."
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"The learning curve can be steep but there is nothing more satisfying than the finished product."
#6

CodeIgniter

5.0
(1)
"I love codeigniter."
#7

Qcodo

5.0
(1)
"Qcodo is the best. 100% OOP, unlike many of the others"
#8

KnockoutJS

5.0
(1)
"I highly recommend it. Unlike the other options it's a library not a framework, so you write JavaScript just like normal and it handles the two way data binding."
#9

Bottle

5.0
(1)
"Bottle.py is nicely documented and dead simple to get a test server deployed on your localhost."
#10

web2py

5.0
(1)
"The auto form creation saves me a ton of time."
#11

Vue

4.0
(1)
"I do use Vue quite often for clients."
#12

jQuery

4.0
(1)
"I picked jQuery and became very good at it."
#13

Node.js

4.0
(1)
"Then Node came out, now I wish I was better at vanilla JS."
#14

Angular

4.0
(1)
"Angular is one of the go-to frameworks."
#15

Backbone

4.0
(1)
"Backbone is also a popular choice."
#16

Ember

4.0
(1)
"Ember is mentioned as a possible option."
#17

CherryPy

4.0
(1)
"CherryPy is great for smaller, stand-alone projects with rock solid stability."
#18

Meteor

2.0
(1)
"Meteor seems rather niche and I've yet to see a single job posting for it."

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