Laravel Alternatives

Laravel is described as 'Web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things' and is a popular software framework in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Laravel for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Laravel alternative is Django, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laravel are Ruby on Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter and ASP.NET.

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  1.  6 likes

    Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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     4 likes

    Phraw, a PHP micro-framework. Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  3. Cross-platform content management framework for publishing web content. This is a multi-purpose web application based on ApPHP MVC Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • HP webOS
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Backdrop CMS icon
     11 likes

    Backdrop CMS is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites. Use it for everything from a single-administrator's personal blog site, to a complex, multi-role, business e-commerce platform.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    This is not an MVC framework.

    • Backdrop CMS is Free and Open SourceLaravel is also Free and Open Source
    • Backdrop CMS is a Blog Publishing Laravel is a Software Framework
    • Backdrop CMS is CustomizableLaravel is not according to our users
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    Koseven is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP7, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. Forked from Kohana and updated to work with PHP7.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Laska is a server-side microframework for Dart, which aims to be a fast, simple and lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Crow icon
     3 likes

    Crow is a C++ microframework for running web services. It uses routing similar to Python's Flask which makes it easy to use. It is also extremely fast, beating multiple existing C++ frameworks as well as non C++ frameworks.

    10 Crow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8.  3 likes

    Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. SaaSykit icon
     1 like

    SaaSykit is a SaaS starter kit (boilerplate) that comes packed with all components required to run a modern SaaS software.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Dumbo icon
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    Experience a friendly PHP framework that offers lightweight architecture with security like CSRF and JWT, flexible routing with parameters, middleware support, authentication options, static file serving, HTTP caching, and CORS support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  11. Serverpod icon
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    Open-source server framework for Dart and Flutter featuring database integration, automatic API generation, integrated ORM, type safety, authentication, and runtime inspection, enabling seamless app and web server creation for varied hosting environments.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Modern PHP framework with annotation routing, ObjectQuel ORM, and legacy integration. Modernize existing PHP apps incrementally without breaking what works.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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