Express VS Django

Compare Express vs Django and see what are their differences.

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)
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Express Django
673 484
63,771 76,672
0.7% 1.1%
8.3 9.8
about 14 hours ago 6 days ago
JavaScript Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

Django

Posts with mentions or reviews of Django. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Express and Django you can also consider the following projects:

Next.js - The React Framework

Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

Flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications.

AdonisJs Application

Masonite - The Modern And Developer Centric Python Web Framework. Be sure to read the documentation and join the Discord channel for questions: https://discord.gg/TwKeFahmPZ

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js