domain: backend
4128 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| caolan/forms A Node.js library for creating, parsing, and validating HTML forms, inspired by form helpers in Django and Ruby on Rails. It lets developer… | 32 | 1005 | maintenance |
| scoumbourdis/grocery-crud Grocery CRUD is a PHP library for the CodeIgniter framework that auto-generates a full, production-ready CRUD (create, read, update, delete… | 23 | 1005 | maintenance |
| 417511458/jbone jbone is a Java project suite built on Spring Cloud that provides a microservices foundation skeleton for small and medium enterprises. It … | 23 | 1004 | maintenance |
| nytimes/openapi2proto A Go CLI tool that converts OpenAPI/Swagger specifications (YAML or JSON) into Protobuf v3 schemas and gRPC service definitions. It support… | 23 | 1002 | maintenance |
| toshi-search/Toshi Toshi is a full-text search engine written in safe, stable Rust, intended as an Elasticsearch-like service built on Tantivy. It exposes an … | 72 | 4256 | experimental |
| bknd-io/bknd bknd is a lightweight, batteries-included backend-as-a-service (Firebase/Supabase alternative) providing data management, authentication, m… | 66 | 3755 | experimental |
| russellromney/honker A SQLite loadable extension plus multi-language bindings that add Postgres-style NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics, durable task queues, event stream… | 82 | 3018 | experimental |
| RootbeerComputer/backend-GPT An experimental project that replaces a traditional backend and database with an LLM. Users describe their app's purpose, provide an initia… | 31 | 2932 | experimental |
| honojs/honox HonoX is a meta-framework built on Hono and Vite for creating full-stack websites and Web APIs with file-based routing and fast SSR. It sup… | 92 | 2919 | experimental |
| multigres/multigres Multigres is an adaptation of Vitess for PostgreSQL, providing a two-level proxy layer (Multigateway and Multipooler) for connection poolin… | 70 | 2568 | experimental |
| ProgrammerAnthony/Pantheon Pantheon is a Java-based microservice registry center inspired by Eureka and Nacos. It incorporates architecture ideas and code patterns fr… | 32 | 2339 | experimental |
| darklang/dark Darklang is an integrated functional programming language, editor, and cloud infrastructure for building backends, APIs, and CLIs without s… | 86 | 2170 | experimental |
| hyperfiddle/electric Electric Clojure is a full-stack Clojure/Script framework where client and server code compose in the same expression, with a compiler that… | 65 | 2138 | experimental |
| LukeMathWalker/pavex Pavex is a Rust framework for building APIs and web applications, aiming to combine the productivity of frameworks like Rails or ASP.NET Co… | 75 | 2072 | experimental |
| losfair/blueboat Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime written in Rust, designed for frictionless horizontal scalability. It… | 23 | 1924 | experimental |
| jina-ai/dev-gpt Dev-GPT is a Python CLI tool that simulates a virtual development team (Product Manager, Developer, DevOps) powered by OpenAI models. Users… | 30 | 1870 | experimental |
| laravel/wayfinder Laravel Wayfinder is a Composer package plus Vite plugin that generates fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions from Laravel controlle… | 86 | 1826 | experimental |
| chaisql/chai ChaiSQL is a modern embedded SQL database written in pure Go with a PostgreSQL-inspired API, built on CockroachDB's Pebble storage engine. … | 63 | 1705 | experimental |
| uniqush/uniqush-push Uniqush-push is a self-hosted Go server that provides a unified HTTP API for sending push notifications to mobile apps across FCM (Android)… | 89 | 1559 | experimental |
| sandglass/sandglass Sandglass is a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent message queue that orders messages by time. It supports asynchronous task exe… | 10 | 1523 | experimental |
| TanStack/bling TanStack Bling is a framework-agnostic set of transpilation utilities and macros for TypeScript, enabling isomorphic client/server RPCs (vi… | 10 | 1494 | experimental |
| s8sg/goflow GoFlow is a Golang-based framework for authoring and executing distributed workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. It distrib… | 53 | 1383 | experimental |
| lagonapp/lagon Lagon is an open-source runtime and platform for deploying TypeScript and JavaScript serverless functions at the edge, built on a Rust runt… | 10 | 1341 | experimental |
| aspnet/AspLabs A repository of experimental ASP.NET projects and prototypes that are not yet ready for production release, maintained by the ASP.NET team.… | 77 | 1224 | experimental |
| gohouse/gorose GoRose is a mini database ORM for Go inspired by Laravel's Eloquent, offering both struct-bound (Go-style) and map-based (PHP-style) query … | 23 | 1162 | experimental |
| syumai/workers A Go package that lets you run an HTTP server written in Go on Cloudflare Workers by compiling to WebAssembly. It provides bindings for Clo… | 88 | 1132 | experimental |
| anthdm/superkit SUPERKIT is a full-stack web framework for Go that bundles project scaffolding, Templ-based views, Tailwind CSS, database migrations, valid… | 14 | 1102 | experimental |
| aquametalabs/aquameta Aquameta is an experimental web development platform built entirely inside PostgreSQL, where schemas, REST endpoints, WebSocket events, ver… | 39 | 1100 | experimental |
| Kotlin/kotlinx-rpc kotlinx.rpc is an official JetBrains Kotlin library for adding asynchronous Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services to Kotlin Multiplatform ap… | 86 | 1066 | experimental |
| levkk/rwf Rwf is a comprehensive MVC web framework for building web applications in Rust, bundling an HTTP server, ORM, dynamic templates, authentica… | 60 | 1063 | experimental |
| khonsulabs/bonsaidb BonsaiDb is a developer-friendly document database written in Rust, inspired by CouchDB, offering ACID-compliant transactional collections,… | 23 | 1061 | experimental |
| zknill/sqledge SQLedge replicates a Postgres database to a local SQLite file using Postgres logical replication, serving reads from SQLite while forwardin… | 28 | 1042 | experimental |
| davidfowl/Todos A collection of todo list backend API implementations written in C# for .NET Core. It serves as reference sample code demonstrating differe… | 32 | 1036 | experimental |
| azac/cobol-on-wheelchair COBOL on Wheelchair is a micro web-framework written in COBOL that runs via CGI on an Apache server with GNU Cobol. It is a novelty project… | 32 | 1031 | experimental |
| justrach/turboAPI TurboAPI is a FastAPI-compatible Python web framework whose HTTP layer is implemented in Zig, offering drop-in migration by changing a sing… | 87 | 1003 | experimental |
| vercel/pkg A command-line tool that packages Node.js projects into standalone executables that run without Node.js installed, supporting cross-compila… | 10 | 24349 | abandoned |
| shadcn-ui/taxonomy Taxonomy is an open-source Next.js 13 demo application showcasing the App Router, server components, authentication with NextAuth.js, Prism… | 67 | 19289 | abandoned |
| prisma/prisma1 Prisma 1 is a deprecated database toolkit providing an ORM with auto-generated type-safe clients, declarative migrations, and a GraphQL-bas… | 10 | 16380 | abandoned |
| google/wire Wire is a compile-time dependency injection code generation tool for Go. It generates initialization code from provider functions without r… | 10 | 14407 | abandoned |
| Netflix/conductor Conductor is a platform created by Netflix to orchestrate workflows that span across microservices, supporting workflow definitions in JSON… | 10 | 12752 | abandoned |
| reactioncommerce/reaction Mailchimp Open Commerce (formerly Reaction Commerce) is an API-first, headless e-commerce platform built with Node.js, MongoDB, React, and … | 54 | 12401 | abandoned |
| thedevdojo/voyager Voyager is a Laravel admin package providing a BREAD (Browse, Read, Edit, Add, Delete) builder, media manager, menu builder, database manag… | 10 | 11805 | abandoned |
| go-martini/martini Martini is a classic Go web framework offering simple routing, middleware chaining, dependency injection of services into handlers, and sta… | 23 | 11599 | abandoned |
| lucia-auth/lucia Lucia is a TypeScript authentication library for managing user sessions and OAuth in web applications. It was deprecated in March 2025 and … | 75 | 10449 | abandoned |
| goofychris/art-template art-template is a high-performance JavaScript templating engine for Node.js and the browser, using scope pre-declaration to achieve near-li… | 64 | 9848 | abandoned |
| swiftmailer/swiftmailer Swift Mailer is a component-based, object-oriented PHP library for composing and sending emails via SMTP or Sendmail, with MIME message bui… | 10 | 9429 | abandoned |
| Automattic/kue Kue is a feature-rich priority job queue for Node.js backed by Redis, supporting delayed jobs, retries with backoff, job progress events, a… | 23 | 9425 | abandoned |
| golang/mock GoMock is a mocking framework for Go that generates mock implementations of interfaces via the mockgen code-generation tool. It integrates … | 10 | 9340 | abandoned |
| thoughtbot/paperclip Paperclip is a Ruby gem that provides easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord models in Rails applications, handling uploads, vali… | 10 | 9015 | abandoned |
| microsoft/cpprestsdk The C++ REST SDK (Casablanca) is a Microsoft library for cloud-based client-server communication in native C++ using a modern asynchronous … | 10 | 8257 | abandoned |
| mitchellh/mapstructure mapstructure is a Go library for decoding generic map values (e.g. map[string]interface{}) into native Go structs and vice versa, with help… | 10 | 8026 | abandoned |
| ipkn/crow Crow is a fast, header-only C++ micro web framework inspired by Python Flask, offering Flask-like routing, built-in JSON handling, Mustache… | 23 | 7627 | abandoned |
| google/glog Google's C++14 application-level logging library providing stream-based logging APIs and helper macros. The project is deprecated and will … | 10 | 7395 | abandoned |
| symfony/debug A Symfony component providing tools to ease debugging PHP code, such as enabling enhanced error handling. It has been deprecated since Symf… | 10 | 7170 | abandoned |
| NancyFx/Nancy Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony web framework for building HTTP-based services on .NET Framework/Core and Mono. It provides a simple D… | 10 | 7093 | abandoned |
| go-yaml/yaml A Go library for encoding and decoding YAML, based on a pure Go port of libyaml. It supports most of YAML 1.2 with some YAML 1.1 compatibil… | 10 | 7018 | abandoned |
| vmware-archive/kubeless Kubeless is a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that lets you deploy functions as custom Kubernetes resources, with an in-cluster cont… | 10 | 6833 | abandoned |
| TryGhost/node-sqlite3 Asynchronous, non-blocking SQLite3 bindings for Node.js, written in modern C++ with Node-API prebuilt binaries. The repository is officiall… | 10 | 6416 | abandoned |
| graphql/express-graphql express-graphql is the original official reference implementation of a GraphQL HTTP server middleware for Express (and Connect/Restify). It… | 10 | 6259 | abandoned |
| airbnb/hypernova Hypernova is a Node.js service from Airbnb that renders JavaScript views (e.g., React components) on the server via HTTP, returning HTML st… | 10 | 5783 | abandoned |
| googollee/go-socket.io A Go implementation of the Socket.IO realtime application framework, supporting Socket.IO client protocol version 1.4 with rooms, namespace… | 10 | 5779 | abandoned |
| ponzu-cms/ponzu Ponzu is an open-source headless CMS and HTTP server framework written in Go that auto-generates content editors and a JSON API from CLI sc… | 46 | 5757 | abandoned |
| gogo/protobuf GoGoProtobuf is a Go library and protoc plugin that extends the official Go protobuf implementation with extra code-generation 'gadgets' fo… | 23 | 5665 | abandoned |
| vibora-io/vibora Vibora is a fast, asynchronous Python 3.6+ HTTP client/server web framework with features like routing, sessions, websockets, caching, and … | 10 | 5582 | abandoned |
| aspnet/Mvc ASP.NET Core MVC is a model-view-controller framework for building dynamic web sites and HTTP services with clean separation of concerns, m… | 10 | 5566 | abandoned |
| nginx/unit NGINX Unit is a lightweight universal web application server, written in C, that serves static assets, handles TLS, routes requests, and na… | 10 | 5549 | abandoned |
| Zend Framework Zend Framework is a collection of 60+ loosely coupled, object-oriented PHP packages for building web applications and services, installable… | 10 | 5432 | abandoned |
| apache/dubbo-spring-boot-project A Spring Boot starter project for Apache Dubbo that provides auto-configuration, annotation-driven setup, and production-ready actuator fea… | 59 | 5385 | abandoned |
| alephjs/aleph.js Aleph.js is a full-stack web framework for Deno supporting React SSR, SSG, API routes, and ESM-based development. It is no longer maintaine… | 10 | 5177 | abandoned |
| node-webot/wechat A Node.js middleware for Express/Connect that handles WeChat Official Account message interfaces, providing automatic replies (text, image,… | 23 | 5173 | abandoned |
| beyondcode/laravel-websockets A Laravel package that provides a self-hosted WebSocket server with full Pusher API compatibility, started via a single artisan command. It… | 10 | 5072 | abandoned |
| Netflix/fast_jsonapi A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby objects, originally developed by Netflix, supporting attributes, relationships, compound documents, and… | 23 | 5030 | abandoned |
| jasontaylordev/NorthwindTraders Northwind Traders is a sample ASP.NET Core application demonstrating Clean Architecture with Entity Framework Core and a code-first Northwi… | 10 | 5006 | abandoned |
| deployd/deployd Deployd is a Node.js toolkit for building realtime REST APIs for web and mobile apps using configurable Resources like Collections, managed… | 23 | 4941 | abandoned |
| streadway/amqp A Go client library implementing the AMQP 0.9.1 protocol, primarily targeting RabbitMQ as the message broker server. It is explicitly unmai… | 32 | 4926 | abandoned |
| krakenjs/kraken-js Kraken-js is an Express-based Node.js web application bootstrapping module that adds environment-aware configuration, middleware management… | 39 | 4917 | abandoned |
| facebookarchive/grace A Go library for building socket-based servers that support graceful termination and restart without dropping connections. It provides APIs… | 10 | 4880 | abandoned |
| mtdowling/cron-expression A PHP library for parsing CRON expressions, determining whether a schedule is due, and calculating the next or previous run dates. This ori… | 23 | 4860 | abandoned |
| nbs-system/naxsi NAXSI is a high-performance, low-maintenance web application firewall (WAF) implemented as a third-party NGINX module written in C. Instead… | 10 | 4811 | abandoned |
| Qihoo360/Atlas Atlas is a high-performance MySQL protocol proxy (database middleware) developed by Qihoo 360's DBA and infrastructure team, based on MySQL… | 23 | 4617 | abandoned |
| Camunda Platform 7 Camunda Platform 7 is a Java-based BPMN 2.0 process engine framework for workflow and decision automation, embeddable in any JVM applicatio… | 10 | 4270 | abandoned |
| helios-framework/helios Helios is an extensible open-source mobile backend framework written in Ruby that provides essential backend services for iOS apps, includi… | 32 | 4074 | abandoned |
| rendrjs/rendr Rendr is a small JavaScript library that lets you run Backbone.js apps on both the client and the server, rendering fully-formed HTML on th… | 23 | 4053 | abandoned |
| swooletw/laravel-swoole A PHP composer package that runs Laravel and Lumen applications on a high-performance Swoole-based HTTP server, benchmarked up to 5x faster… | 10 | 4027 | abandoned |
| swagger-api/swagger-node A Node.js module and CLI for designing, building, and testing Swagger 2.0-compliant REST APIs, integrating with Express, Hapi, Restify, and… | 10 | 3945 | abandoned |
| redfin/react-server React Server is a Node.js framework for building universal (isomorphic) React applications with server-side rendering, optimized for fast p… | 23 | 3865 | abandoned |
| christianselig/apollo-backend The server backend for the Apollo iOS Reddit client, written in Go, which checked user notifications and managed subreddit watchers via aut… | 10 | 3655 | abandoned |
| silexphp/Silex Silex is a PHP micro-framework for building websites and simple web applications, built on top of Symfony components with a lightweight, Pi… | 10 | 3530 | abandoned |
| socketstream/socketstream SocketStream is a Node.js framework for building realtime web applications with bidirectional communication. It is explicitly no longer mai… | 32 | 3516 | abandoned |
| nylas/sync-engine The Nylas Sync Engine is an open-source email sync platform that exposes a RESTful API on top of IMAP/SMTP, letting applications read and s… | 10 | 3496 | abandoned |
| jasonlvhit/gocron goCron is a Go job scheduling library that lets you run functions periodically at pre-determined intervals using a simple, human-friendly f… | 23 | 3494 | abandoned |
| sensiolabs/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle A Symfony FrameworkBundle extension that adds annotation-based configuration for Controller classes, covering routing, request converters, … | 10 | 3351 | abandoned |
| koding/kite Kite is a Go framework for building micro-services where each service (a 'kite') acts as both an RPC server and client, communicating over … | 32 | 3260 | abandoned |
| voltrb/volt Volt is a Ruby web framework in which the same Ruby code runs on both the server and the client (compiled via Opal), with reactive DOM upda… | 32 | 3195 | abandoned |
| wasmerio/winterjs WinterJS is a high-performance JavaScript server that executes Service Worker scripts following the WinterCG specification, built on Spider… | 10 | 3189 | abandoned |
| moscajs/mosca Mosca is a Node.js MQTT broker that can run standalone or be embedded in any Node.js application. It supports MQTT 3.1/3.1.1 with QoS 0 and… | 10 | 3182 | abandoned |
| jpadilla/django-rest-framework-jwt A Python package that adds JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication to Django REST Framework APIs. It provides token obtain, refresh, and verify… | 10 | 3165 | abandoned |
| eolinker/goku_lite Goku API Gateway (goku_lite) is a high-performance HTTP API gateway written in pure Go, offering dynamic routing, service orchestration, mu… | 23 | 3131 | abandoned |
| spring-attic/sagan Sagan is the Spring team's own web application that powered the spring.io website, including its blog and guides, built with Spring Boot as… | 10 | 3093 | abandoned |
| paularmstrong/swig Swig is a Django/Jinja-like template engine for Node.js and major web browsers, compiling templates into cached JavaScript functions. It su… | 10 | 3092 | abandoned |