Play Framework Alternatives

Apps similar to Play Framework include Django, which is free and open source. Other options are Ktor, Ruby on Rails, Flask Framework and Symfony. Web Frameworks like Play Framework are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Yii Framework icon
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    Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. OpenXava icon
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    OpenXava is a Web Java Framework for Rapid Development of Enterprise Applications.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Sinatra icon
     7 likes

    Sinatra is a free and open source software web application library and domain-specific language written in Ruby. It is an alternative to other Ruby web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Merb, Nitro, Camping, and Rango. It is dependent on the Rack web server interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Ruby
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  4. Pyramid icon
     9 likes

    Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Python
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  5. GWT is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords and Google Wallet. It's open source, completely free, and used by thousands of enthusiastic developers around the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. Dropwizard icon
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    Dropwizard straddles the line between being a library and a framework. Its goal is to provide performant, reliable implementations of everything a production-ready web application needs. Because this functionality is extracted into a reusable library, your application remains...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Apache Struts is an open-source web application framework for developing Java EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Falcon is a bare-metal Python web API framework for building very fast app backends and microservices.

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    • Mac
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  9. Bottle icon
     2 likes

    Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  10. Pylons Framework is an open source Web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  11. Bootique icon
     3 likes

    A minimally-opinionated framework for runnable Java applications. Bootique is an open-source project and you can use it for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Roll icon
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    Async, simple, fast: pick three! Roll is a pico framework with performances and aesthetic in mind. - pyrates/roll

    15 Roll alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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