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AWS Amplify is a set of development tools, libraries, and hosted services for building web and mobile applications on Amazon Web Services. It connects client applications to AWS capabilities such as authentication, APIs, storage, databases, and serverless functions through configuration and code-gen...
Brownie is a Python-based development framework for Ethereum smart contracts. It provides tools for compiling contracts, running automated tests, managing local and forked blockchain environments, interacting with deployed contracts, and writing deployment scripts. Brownie is intended for developers...
Nhost is an open-source backend platform built around PostgreSQL, Hasura, and related services. It provides GraphQL APIs, authentication, file and object storage, and server-side functions for applications. Nhost is intended for web and mobile developers who want a managed backend with PostgreSQL as...
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged development environment for Laravel applications. It runs as a Vagrant-managed virtual machine and includes a configured Linux server environment with tools such as Nginx, PHP, and database services. Homestead is intended to give Laravel developers a re...
The Cheesewring is a granite tor on Stowe’s Hill, on the eastern side of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England. It consists of large, weathered granite slabs stacked in an irregular formation, with the upper blocks giving it a shape compared with a traditional cheese press. The tor is a geological landma...
WAMP Stack is a local web-development environment built from Windows, the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP. The name is an acronym formed from the main components, and the arrangement is the Windows counterpart to the commonly named LAMP stack, which uses Linux. It is intended for developers who w...
Yii is an open-source web application framework written in PHP. It follows the model-view-controller pattern and provides reusable components for tasks such as database access, form handling, authentication, caching, routing, and validation. The framework is intended for developers building structur...
Back4app is a backend-as-a-service platform built around Parse Server, an open-source framework for application backends. It provides managed infrastructure and development tools for applications that need features such as data storage, user accounts, APIs, cloud functions, and push notifications. T...
The SERN stack is a web development combination of SQL, Express.js, React, and Node.js. SQL represents a relational database layer, while Express.js and Node.js commonly provide the server-side application and API layers, and React supplies the user-interface layer. Unlike the MERN stack, which uses...
NativeScript is an open-source framework for building mobile applications with native user interfaces from JavaScript or TypeScript code. It provides access to platform APIs while allowing developers to share application logic across iOS and Android projects, and it has been used with frameworks suc...
AMPPS is a cross-platform local web development stack distributed by Softaculous. It packages commonly used server and programming components, including Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, and MongoDB, so developers can run and test web applications on a local computer. Its integrated Softaculous inst...
Puppet is an open-source configuration management system used to define and enforce the desired state of computer infrastructure. Administrators write manifests that describe resources such as packages, files, services, and users, and Puppet applies those definitions to managed systems. The project...
EasyPHP DevServer is a Windows software package that provides a local environment for developing and testing PHP websites. It combines server and database components such as Apache, PHP, and MySQL in a graphical installation and management interface. The project originated in France and became known...
Full-stack JavaScript combination using MongoDB or MySQL, Express.js, Ember.js, and Node.js, offering an Ember.js frontend variant on the MEAN architecture.
Uniform Server is a portable web-development stack for Microsoft Windows. It packages an Apache web server, the MySQL database system, and PHP so that users can run a local environment for building or testing PHP sites without installing each component separately. The files can be kept in a normal d...
The WISA stack is a term for a web application environment built from Microsoft technologies: Windows Server provides the operating system, Internet Information Services (IIS) provides the web server, SQL Server provides the database system, and ASP.NET provides the application framework. It is inte...
MEAN.js is an open-source full-stack JavaScript solution that provides a structured starting point for web applications using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. Its distinguishing feature is the integration of a document database, an Express server framework, an Angular client framework, and...
AppServ is a free Windows software package that installs a local web-development environment built around Apache HTTP Server, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin. Its installer brings together the web server, PHP interpreter, database server, and browser-based MySQL administration tool, allowing developers t...
Create React App is an open-source command-line tool that bootstraps a React application with a preset development and build setup. Facebook released it in 2016, and its npx create-react-app my-app command became a common way to start projects without writing Webpack or other build configuration by...
Create React App is a command-line tool and project starter that bootstraps React applications with a preconfigured build system. Released by Facebook in 2016, it bundled tools such as webpack, Babel, and ESLint behind a simple command, so developers could build and run a React app without setting u...
