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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

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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.

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Camping

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Prado

www.pradosoft.com
Language: PHP

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

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Django

www.djangoproject.com
Language: Python

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

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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.