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# Awesome Backend ![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)



A curated list of awesome backend tools, libraries and resources.



## Table of contents



- [Runtimes & Frameworks](#runtimes--frameworks)

- [Databases](#databases)

- [ORM's & ODM's](#orms--odms)

- [Testing](#testing)

- [Monitoring](#monitoring)

- [Documentation](#documentation)

- [Devops & CI / CD](#devops--ci--cd)

- [Architectures & Design Approaches](#architectures--design-approaches)

- [Other tools](#other-tools)



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### Runtimes & Frameworks



**Javascript / Typescript**

- [NodeJS](https://github.com/nodejs/node) : a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment.

- [Bun](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun) : a JavaScript runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler (alternative to Node.js).

- [Deno](https://github.com/denoland/deno) : a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience.

- [ExpressJS](https://github.com/expressjs/express) : a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

- [AdonisJS](https://github.com/adonisjs/core) : a TypeScript-first web framework for building web apps and API servers.

- [Fastify](https://github.com/fastify/fastify) : a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js.

- [NestJS](https://github.com/nestjs/nest) : a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications.



**C#**

- [Microsoft ASP.NET Core](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore) : a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.



**Ruby**

- [Rails](https://rubyonrails.org/) : a server-side web application framework written in Ruby.



**Python**

- [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) : a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

- [FastAPI](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi) : a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints



**Rust**

- [Shuttle](https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle) : fastest way to build & ship a backend without writing any infrastructure files in Rust.

- [Axum](https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum) : route requests to handlers with a macro free API in Rust

- [Actix](https://github.com/actix/actix-web) : a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.



**Java**

- [Spring Boot](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot) : a tool that makes developing web applications and microservices with Java Spring Framework faster and easier.



**PHP**

- [Laravel](https://github.com/laravel/laravel) : a free and open-source PHP-based web framework for building web applications.

- [Symfony](https://github.com/symfony/symfony) : a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework to build web applications, APIs, microservices and web services.

- [CakePHP](https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp) : an open-source web, rapid development PHP framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code.



**Other**

- [AppWrite](https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite) : an open-source platform for building applications at any scale, using your preferred programming languages and tools.

- [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin) : A high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go, known for its speed and minimalist design.

- [Phoenix](https://www.phoenixframework.org/) : a web framework for the Elixir programming language that gives you peace of mind from development to production.



### Databases



**Relational Databases**



- [PostgreSQL](https://github.com/postgres/postgres) : a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.

- [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/) : a free and open-source relational database engine written in the C programming language.

- [CockroachDB](https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach) : a distributed database with standard SQL for cloud applications.

- [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com) : an open-source relational database management system.

- [MariaDB](https://github.com/MariaDB/server) : a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system.



**Document-Oriented Databases**



- [MongoDB](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo) : an open-source, document-oriented database management system.

- [Apache CouchDB](https://github.com/apache/couchdb) : an open-source document database that collects and stores data in JSON-based document formats.



**Analytical Databases**



- [DuckDB](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb) : a high-performance analytical database system. It is designed to be fast, reliable, portable, and easy to use.

- [Apache Druid](https://github.com/apache/druid/) : a high performance, real-time analytics database that delivers sub-second queries on streaming and batch data at scale and under load.

- [Apache Pinot](https://github.com/apache/pinot) : a real-time distributed OLAP datastore, purpose-built to provide ultra low-latency analytics at extremely high throughput.



**Other Databases**



- [Redis](https://github.com/redis/redis) : an open-source, in-memory, key-value store that is used primarily as an application cache or quick-response database.

- [Amazon DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/) : a managed NoSQL database service provided by AWS that supports key-value and document data structures.

- [Cassandra](https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html) : a distributed NoSQL database that delivers continuous availability, high performance, & linear scalability.



**DB Tools**

- [PgAdmin](https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4) : a web based administration tool for the PostgreSQL database.

- [DB Browser for SQLite](https://sqlitebrowser.org/) : a high quality, visual, open-source tool designed for people who want to create, search, and edit SQLite or SQLCipher database files.

- [DBeaver](https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver) : a free cross-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts, and everyone working with data.

- [MongoDB Compass](https://github.com/mongodb-js/compass): a powerful GUI for querying, aggregating, and analyzing your MongoDB data in a visual environment



### ORM's & ODM's



**ORM's (Object Relational Mapping)**



- [Drizzle](https://github.com/drizzle-team/drizzle-orm) : a lightweight and performant TypeScript ORM with developer experience in mind.

- [Prisma](https://github.com/prisma/prisma) : next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript.

- [TypeORM](https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm) : an ORM that can run in NodeJS, Browser, Cordova, PhoneGap, Ionic, React Native, NativeScript, Expo, and Electron platforms and can be used with TypeScript and JavaScript (ES2021).

- [Sequelize](https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize) : a modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM for Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and SQL Server, and more.

- [MikroORM](https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm) : a TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns.



**ODM's (Object Document Mapping)**



- [Mongoose](https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose) : a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

- [Beanie](https://github.com/BeanieODM/beanie) : an asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB.

- [MongoEngine](https://github.com/MongoEngine/mongoengine) : a Python object data mapper for MongoDB.



**Query builders**

- [Kysely](https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely) : a type-safe and autocompletion-friendly TypeScript SQL query builder.

- [Diesel](https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel) : a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust.



### Testing



**API testing**



- [Postman](https://www.postman.com/) : a platform for collaborative API development.



**Unit tests** :



- [Jest](https://github.com/jestjs/jest) : a delightful JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity.

- [Mocha](https://github.com/mochajs/mocha) : a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser.

- [Chai](https://github.com/chaijs/chai) : a BDD / TDD assertion library for node and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework.

- [JUnit](https://github.com/junit-team/junit4) : a programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.

- [Mockito](https://github.com/mockito/mockito) : a mocking framework for unit tests written in Java.



**Other**



- [MongoDB In-Memory Server](https://github.com/typegoose/mongodb-memory-server) : manage & spin up mongodb server binaries with zero(or slight) configuration for tests.



### Monitoring



- [Grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) : an open-source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.

- [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) : an open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

- [Sentry](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) : a developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring platform.

- [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi) : a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

- [DataDog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) : a cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that provides real-time insights into complex IT environments.



### Documentation



- [Doxygen](https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen) : a widely-used and the de facto standard documentation generation tool for C++ (supports other languages).

- [Javadoc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javadoc) : an API documentation generator for the Java programming language.

- [Swagger](https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui) : a set of open-source tools for designing, building, documenting, and consuming RESTful APIs.

- [Postman API Documentation tool](https://www.postman.com/api-documentation-tool/) : a tool to generate beautiful, machine-readable documentation for your API and automatically keep it up to date.

- [LaTex](https://www.latex-project.org/) : a typesetting system particularly well-suited for producing technical and scientific documentation.

- [Pandoc](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc) : A universal document converter that can transform files from one markup format into another.



### Devops & CI / CD



**Code Analysis**



- [SonarQube](https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube) : a code quality assurance tool that performs in-depth code analysis and generates an analysis report to ensure code reliability.

- [CodeCov](https://about.codecov.io/) : a code analysis tool with which users can group, merge, archive, and compare coverage reports.

- [Resharper by Jetbrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/) : a powerful software (Visual Studio extension) that offers an intelligent, fast and efficient way to improve your code quality and eliminate errors.



**Workflows & Containerization**



- [Jenkins](https://www.jenkins.io/) : an open-source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software.

- [Github Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) : Automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository.

- [Act](https://github.com/nektos/act) : a tool to run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀.

- [Portainer](https://github.com/portainer/portainer) : a container management software for Docker, Podman and Kubernetes.

- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) : a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications 🐳.

- [Kubernetes (k8s)](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) : an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management.



**IaC (Infrastructure as Code)**



- [Ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible) : an open-source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes.

- [Terraform](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform) : an infrastructure as code tool that enables you to safely and predictably provision and manage infrastructure in any cloud.

- [Chef](https://github.com/chef/chef) : a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale.



**Releases**



- [Release Drafter](https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter) : Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master.

- [Semantic Release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) : Fully automated version management and package publishing.



**Hosting / Deployment**:



- [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) : a cloud computing platform that simplifies the building, deployment, and management of websites.

- [Vercel](https://vercel.com/) : a cloud platform that enables developers to easily deploy and manage web applications.

- [Glitch](glitch.com) : a collaborative online platform that allows users to create, edit, and deploy web applications using Node.js and static web technologies.

- [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/) : a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

- [Supabase](https://supabase.com/) : an open-source Firebase alternative.

- [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/) : a BaaS (Backend As A Service), i.e a bunch of services there to help you build (web) apps.



### Architectures & Design Approaches



- [DDD (Domain Driven Design)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhzdZIDX_k) : a major software design approach, focusing on modeling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's experts.

- [TDD (Test Driven Development)](https://circleci.com/blog/test-driven-development-tdd/) : a robust approach that enhances code quality and reliability by ensuring that tests are written before the actual code.

- [Microservices](https://microservices.io/patterns/microservices.html) : an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of two or more services.

- [EDA (Event-Driven Architecture)](https://aws.amazon.com/event-driven-architecture/?nc1=h_ls) : a software architecture paradigm concerning the production and detection of events.



### Other tools



- [GraphQL](https://graphql.org/) : a data query and manipulation language that allows specifying what data is to be retrieved ("declarative data fetching") or modified.

- [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/) : a distributed event streaming platform capable of handling high-throughput data feeds.



**Libraries**

- [Better Auth](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth) : a framework-agnostic authentication (and authorization) library for TypeScript

- [Linguist](https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist) : a library created and used by Github to detect blob languages, ignore binary or vendored files, suppress generated files in diffs, and generate language breakdown graphs.







You've reached the end of this awesome list :) ! Don't forget to star ⭐️ !



## License



This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](/LICENSE) file for details.