Web Development Framework Showcases

Posted in GalleriesApr 21, 08 | 10:50 am

Mubashar Iqbal

Following on from our previous post of Inspiring CMS Showoffs I thought I’d compile a list of Web Development Framework showcases.

There are a lot of web development frameworks, but the most established ones you can count on the fingers of one hand, maybe two.

Ruby On Rails

www.rubyonrails.org
Language: Ruby

Ruby on Rails is the hugely popular framework from 37signals, that powers there many web applications, and made open source.

Also: http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications

CakePHP

www.cakephp.org
Language: PHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

Camping

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/
Language: Ruby

Camping is a microframework for web development, by whytheluckystuff, is insanely small and incredibly powerful.

Symphony

www.symfony-project.org
Language: PHP

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster.

Although I couldn’t find a dedicated showcase, the weekly blog update usually contains a few newly launched Symphony powered sites.

CodeIgniter

codeigniter.com
Language: PHP

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

Prado

www.pradosoft.com
Language: PHP

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5.

Django

www.djangoproject.com
Language: Python

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

There are a number of other frameworks (Fusebox, Spring, Turbo Gears to name a few) that I would have liked to include in the list but I was unable to find showcases for them. If you know of some, please let me know and I’ll update the list.

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Mubashar Iqbal is the creator of Most Inspired, a web designer and developer, who has been building websites for over 13 years. You can read his blog at Mubashar Iqbal

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April 21st, 2008 at 11:59 amty.Gossman

Awesome list Mubashar, I tried rounding up a few links for the CMS post, but it really deserved it’s own post.
I’m sure we will get more deserving mentions here as well.
-ty

April 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pmVoiceHero

What about Drupal? Here an excellent example http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/ . . . or here fastcompany.com

April 21st, 2008 at 8:55 pmMubashar Iqbal

@voicehero: I was going to add drupal to the list, but its touts itself more as a CMS (ala Wordpress, etc) than an web development framework.

Thanks Ty.

April 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 amDonald Organ

I highly suggest taking a look at the Andromeda Database Framework. It brings development to the next level by putting the business logic in the database, making the database do the work and let the front end be just that.

http://www.andromeda-project.org/

April 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 amvictor

What about popular frameworks in Java and Perl? Wicket, Stripes and Tapestry? Catalyst on the Perl side. All are equally popular. Catalyst runs games.rambler.ru which is Russia’s Yahoo.

April 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 amMubashar Iqbal

@victor: This wasn’t mean’t to be a comprehensive list of frameworks for each language, more a collection of links to showcases for those frameworks.

Unfortunately I was unable to find showcases for many popular frameworks.

April 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 ammck

What about Kohana?

April 24th, 2008 at 12:46 amtrice

“codeignitEr”, please, please, please—I don’t know where this really common and pretty nasty sounding “typo” comes from (“e” and “o” aren’t even remotely close on the keyboard).
Thanks!