Flask VS Express

Compare Flask vs Express and see what are their differences.

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)
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Flask Express
135 671
66,287 63,725
0.7% 0.7%
8.7 7.6
4 days ago 2 days ago
Python JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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Flask

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flask. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.

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 2024-04-08.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Next.js - The React Framework

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

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

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]

quart - An async Python micro framework for building web applications.

AdonisJs Application

starlette - The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

Tornado - Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.

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