Choosing a web framework is difficult because similar tools can serve different application needs, while project health and shipping activity change over time. This September 2026 section uses the supplied ToolVitals scores for web framework tools, along with health, shipping, openness, license, and GitHub-star data.
The ranking includes open/source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score descending. Health and shipping break ties on equal composite scores, while GitHub stars provide context only and do not determine the ranking.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next.js | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 98 | 142077 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Ruby on Rails | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 98 | 58749 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | ASP.NET Core | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 38407 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Angular | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 101018 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Qwik | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 22051 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | SvelteKit | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 20774 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Spring Boot | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 98 | 81389 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Astro | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 62209 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | NestJS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 76543 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Nuxt | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 60809 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | ABP | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-3.0 | 97 | 98 | 14418 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Fiber | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 97 | 40108 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Streamlit | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 97 | 45654 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | pwa-kit | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 97 | 97 | 359 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | Filament | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 31937 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | Reflex | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 96 | 28866 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | neomJS neo | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 3265 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 18 | VitePress | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 18275 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 19 | Fastify | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 95 | 37075 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 20 | Ktor | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 95 | 14511 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 21 | Cedar | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 97 | 145 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 22 | FastAPI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 96 | 101983 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 23 | Gradio | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 96 | 43447 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 24 | Hono | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 32051 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 25 | Ionic | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 52638 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 26 | Remix | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 33345 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 27 | Svelte | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 88038 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 28 | Wasp | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 18716 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 29 | Vue.js | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 94 | 54284 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 30 | Analog | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 3176 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 31 | Phoenix | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 94 | 23136 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 32 | Marko | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 96 | 14411 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 33 | Hugo | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 94 | 89661 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 34 | Apache Struts | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 94 | 1366 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 35 | Vike | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 94 | 5820 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 36 | API Platform | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 93 | 2574 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 37 | Restheart | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 93 | 95 | 883 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 38 | Arconia | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 94 | 187 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 39 | Oqtane | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 94 | 2254 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 40 | Serenity | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 94 | 2693 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 41 | Tailwind CSS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 92 | 97413 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 42 | SolidStart | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 92 | 5918 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 43 | playframework | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 91 | 12620 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 44 | Zensical | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 92 | 92 | 5630 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 45 | Rari | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 95 | 1172 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 46 | Encore | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 93 | 89 | 12328 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 47 | Expo | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 88 | 51946 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 48 | Flutter | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 93 | 88 | 178736 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 49 | Vapor | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 92 | 90 | 26196 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 50 | gofr | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 92 | 89 | 20960 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
Top 3 Highlights
Next.js ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 98, a health score of 98, and a shipping score of 98. Its supplied description is “The React Framework.” The record labels it OSI-approved OSS with an MIT license. Its GitHub repository has 142,077 stars, included here as context rather than a ranking input.
Ruby on Rails ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 98, while both its health and shipping scores are 98. The supplied description identifies it as a full-stack web application framework for Ruby. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and MIT, and its GitHub repository has 58,749 stars; those stars provide context only.
ASP.NET Core ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 98, a health score of 98, and a shipping score of 97. The supplied description identifies it as a cross-platform .NET framework for modern web applications and APIs. Its labels are OSI-approved OSS and MIT. The GitHub repository has 38,407 stars, used only as context; among these three highlighted tools, its shipping score is one point below the 98 recorded for the first two.
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