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Fresh is an open-source web framework for the Deno runtime that uses Preact components and an islands architecture. Pages are rendered on the server, while interactive client-side code is added only to designated islands, reducing the amount of JavaScript sent for otherwise static content. Fresh is...

Devilbox is an open-source, Docker-based local development environment for PHP applications. It can provide LAMP and LEMP-style stacks with configurable combinations of PHP versions, web servers, databases, and related services, allowing developers to switch environments without installing each stac...

The MEAN stack is a web development combination consisting of MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, and Node.js. MongoDB provides document-oriented data storage, Express.js supplies server-side web infrastructure, Angular handles the client application, and Node.js provides the JavaScript runtime for backen...

The LAMP stack combines Linux, the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP to provide a foundation for dynamic websites and server-side applications. The components cover the operating system, web server, relational database, and application language respectively, although related LAMP configurations may...

The MEVN stack is a web-development combination of MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js. MongoDB serves as the document-oriented database, Express.js provides server-side web application tools, Vue supplies the user-interface layer, and Node.js runs JavaScript on the server. The combination is u...

Encore is a TypeScript and Go backend framework that uses static analysis of annotated source code to automatically provision cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP, eliminating manual infrastructure configuration.

Trellis is a Roots.io toolchain for developing and deploying WordPress sites, with automation built around Ansible. It provides repeatable procedures for provisioning Linux servers, configuring the components required by a WordPress installation, and releasing site code. Trellis is designed to work...

Lucia is an open-source authentication library and toolkit for TypeScript web applications. It focuses on session-based authentication, giving an application control over session storage, user records, cookies, and the surrounding login interface instead of requiring a hosted identity service. It is...

PartyKit is an open-source developer platform for building real-time and multiplayer web applications. Its programming model pairs a client application with a stateful server, commonly using WebSockets to keep connected users synchronized, while edge infrastructure provides the runtime for those ser...

GitLab Pages is a static website hosting feature integrated with GitLab repositories and GitLab CI/CD. A pipeline builds files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and generated documentation, then publishes the resulting static output through a Pages site, with support for project or custom domains depen...

Shopify Hydrogen is Shopify's React-based framework and storefront toolkit for building custom commerce experiences on the Shopify platform. It is designed for headless commerce, where the presentation layer is developed separately from Shopify's administration, product data, and checkout services t...

The SMACK Stack is a named combination of Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Akka, Apache Cassandra, and Apache Kafka. In the usual division of responsibilities, Spark handles distributed computation, Mesos manages cluster resources, Akka supports concurrent actor-based services, Cassandra provides distrib...

The TIG Stack combines Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to collect, store, query, and visualize time-series measurements. Telegraf gathers metrics from hosts, applications, and services, InfluxDB stores time-stamped data, and Grafana presents dashboards and charts based on queries against that data....

WampServer is a Windows development environment for running PHP websites locally. It bundles the WAMP components Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and provides a system-tray interface for starting or stopping services and selecting among installed versions of the main components. It is intended for developers...

Docksal is an open-source tool for defining and managing local web-development environments with Docker. It provides project configuration, command-line controls through the Fin utility, local DNS and proxy services, and environment-specific configuration files that can also be used in continuous-in...

WIMP is a web application software stack composed of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL, and PHP. It describes a deployment combination rather than a single product, with IIS supplying the web server, MySQL the relational database, and PHP the server-side runtime for dynamic pages. The st...

Better Auth is an open-source authentication framework for TypeScript applications. It provides reusable server and client tools for implementing user accounts, sign-in flows, sessions, and authorization-related behavior, with database integration handled through adapters and configuration. The proj...

Jakarta EE is a collection of open standards and specifications for enterprise Java applications. It defines APIs and platform services for areas such as web applications, dependency injection, persistence, transactions, messaging, and security, while leaving implementation to compatible runtimes. T...

Analog is an open-source meta-framework built around Angular and the Vite development toolchain. It adds conventions and runtime features such as file-based routing, server-side rendering, static-site generation, and server-oriented application behavior to Angular projects. The framework is intended...

The TICK Stack is a time-series monitoring and operations platform associated with InfluxData. Its name refers to Telegraf for collecting metrics, InfluxDB for storing time-series data, Chronograf for exploration and dashboards, and Kapacitor for processing, alerting, and related automation. The com...

MAMP is a local web-development environment for macOS whose name refers to Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It packages the web server, database, and PHP runtime needed to run many server-rendered sites on a developer's own computer rather than on a public host. MAMP is intended for PHP developers...

Chalice is an open-source Python framework from Amazon Web Services for building serverless applications. It provides tools for deploying Python code to AWS Lambda and configuring related services, including API Gateway, through application definitions and route declarations. Chalice is intended for...

Mangum is a Python adapter that connects ASGI applications with AWS Lambda and other event-driven environments. It converts incoming platform events into the scope, receive, and send interactions expected by the ASGI specification, allowing frameworks such as FastAPI and Starlette to handle requests...

Zappa is an open-source Python project for deploying WSGI-compatible web applications to AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. It was designed for frameworks such as Flask and Django and automates parts of packaging, deployment, routing, and related AWS configuration. Zappa is intended for developers w...

Architect (Arc) is the underlying open-source project behind the Arc Framework, providing the deployment and build tooling that compiles arc-format manifests into AWS SAM templates for Lambda deployments.

The AMP stack is a combination of Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP used to serve database-backed websites. Apache handles web requests, MySQL stores structured application data, and PHP generates or processes dynamic page content. The components can run together on Linux and other operating system...

Soketi is an open-source WebSocket server that implements the Pusher-compatible protocol used by many real-time web applications. It is written in Node.js and can be self-hosted, allowing an application to exchange events with connected browsers or other clients without relying on the hosted Pusher...

Xata is a cloud data service that provides a developer-facing database with search and application-data features. Its platform is built around PostgreSQL and includes capabilities for full-text search and file or attachment storage, exposed through web APIs and client libraries. Xata is intended for...

Episerver was a software company and product name associated with web content management and digital commerce tools built on Microsoft technologies. The brand was renamed Optimizely in 2021, and the products became part of Optimizely's digital experience platform. Optimizely CMS is intended for orga...

Feathers.js is an open-source web framework for Node.js used to build REST APIs and real-time applications. It provides a service-oriented architecture in which application resources are exposed through consistent service methods, with support for transports such as HTTP and WebSockets. It is intend...