Bknd is a lightweight, infrastructure-agnostic backend system that runs in any JavaScript environment. It provides an instant backend with a full REST API, authentication, database management, media handling, and workflows.

Bknd is a lightweight, infrastructure-agnostic backend system that runs in any JavaScript environment. It provides an instant backend with a full REST API, authentication, database management, media handling, and workflows.

Firebase, provided by Google, is a backend service and application development platform. It uses AI, cloud infrastructure, and cross-platform SDKs for efficient app development. Firebase offers tools and infrastructure for app creation and business growth.


roadmap.sh is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide the developers in picking up the path and guide their learnings.





Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time. It is built around Smart Packages: little bundles of code that can run on a client, inside a cloud service, or both, and that can manage their lifetime inside the modern distributed...
Line0 is the first AI pair programmer designed and built specifically for backend developers. You can build a production-ready backend API services in minutes with just a few prompts.




Nhost is an open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL, built with the following things in mind:





Toad for MySQL is a freeware development tool that enables you to quickly and efficiently create and execute queries, automate database object management, and develop SQL code. Toad MySQL provides utilities to compare, extract, and search for objects.




Convex is the open-source backend for application builders. An all-in-one platform with thoughtful, product-centric APIs.
Payara Server is an open source, cloud-native middleware platform supporting reliable and secure deployments of Java EE (Jakarta EE) applications on premise, in the cloud or hybrid environments.


Hono - means flame 🔥 in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.

Dokploy is a free self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies the deployment and management of applications and databases.




Fusio is an open source API management platform which helps to build and manage REST APIs. Fusio provides all tools to quickly build an API from different data sources yet it is possible to create complete customized responses.





Fastgen lets you quickly and easily build scalable backends, workflows, automations, APIs and backends. It offers an intuitive, visual approach to creating business logic.

KrakenD emerges as a premier API Gateway, designed for unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. As a high-performance solution, it acts as a Backend For Frontend (BFF), sitting between clients (frontend) and source servers (backends).

Sktch.io is a no-code platform allowing you to build dynamic and interactive websites and web-apps.



Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps. It has a large set of services for users, storage, and realtime communication; as well as specialized APIs like realtime multiplayer, groups/guilds, and chat.



Scaledrone is a realtime messaging service and platform. Send live updates, create chatrooms and collaborative tools.

Primus, the creator god of transformers but now also known as universal wrapper for real-time frameworks. There are a lot of real-time frameworks available for Node.js and they all have different opinions on how real-time should be done.
RapidStash is a service for rapidly publishing sandbox APIs with just JSON. If you have an idea of what kind of data you want to send and receive but aren’t yet ready to build a backend, just throw some example data in a “stash” and interact with it there.

Runscope helps you monitor, log and measure API usage to solve API problems fast. Automatically monitor APIs without any coding. Runscope provides complete logging for all of your API traffic. Track down troublesome API calls with powerful search.


