Top 5 decentralized app development frameworks

• hardhat

  126 6,796 9.9 TypeScript

  Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.

  

This can be attributed to its open source format with large community support thanks to over 17k users on GitHub and an active Discord community with 4.6k members at the time of posting this article. It is continuously under development and growing quickly.

• truffle

  72 14,014 9.4 TypeScript

  Discontinued :warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.

  

Due to its popularity and widespread usage, Truffle has wide support from its users, with over 35k GitHub users at the time of posting.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• embark-framework

  4 3,775 0.0 JavaScript

  Framework for serverless Decentralized Applications using Ethereum, IPFS and other platforms

  

Embark has slightly more stars from the GitHub community than Hardhat, coming in at about 3.4k stars. It also comes with a UI dashboard that gives a survey of the processes Embark is working on for those interested in deploying to the web rather than a console.

• hypothesis

  20 7,289 9.9 Python

  Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.

  

Unlike other frameworks mentioned in this article, Brownie’s test language is Python using hypothesis.

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