So far, 2020 has been a slow year for me in general because of the current situation of the world. But if we look at the tech world, 2020 seems the forecast is not at its end. As we are in a quick-moving industry, it is indeed good to be aware of technologies we should use for future implementations. In the 21st century, web and mobile-based applications are using and developing rapidly to overcome numerous human requirements.

According to a survey, I have found that using frameworks for development purposes plays a huge role in the IT industry. Knowing and working with frameworks is one of the main job factors of the modern IT industry.

If you observe the following states, you can see that the main job factor of the IT industry is knowing languages, frameworks, and other technologies.

Image for post — Figure 01: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-learning-new-tech-frequency-professional-developers

As developers, we all are familiar with at least one backend framework. In this article, I am am going to discuss the three most trending backend frameworks which you should use for 2021.

So, get ready!

Surveys and Stats

GitHub stats

A GitHub survey shows the number of active repositories, total pushes, count of pushes for a single repository, new forks per repository, opened issues per repository, and new watches per repository for each language. As we can see, JavaScript is at the top, as always.

StackOverflow survey

According to the StackOverflow survey, we can observe that Express is at the top as the most-loved backend framework follows by Spring and Django. As the most promising scripting language, NodeJS-based Express is at its top, while one of the most powerful languages, Python, also climbs up the ladder.

GitHub Repositories

As per the stats of GitHub repositories, we can see that, as a framework, NodeJS has the most number of stars. But, the gap between stars is not differentiated much as the number of forks. Spring Boot and Django have the highest number of forks, while NodeJS is having a significantly low amount of forks.

“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is a disaster.” — Elon Musk

Why You Should Choose Node.JS?

Node.JS has become an all-purpose full-stack development environment. It’s based on Chrome v8, an engine for chromium browsers. Node.JS allows your programs written in JavaScript to be executed on the server. There are many frameworks built for Node, including popular ones like Express JS.

Pros of NodeJS

Node.JS has opened the doors to JavaScript full-stack development, inheriting the merits of JavaScript programming as well as allowing engineers to use its libraries and features.
Lightweight JavaScript achieves high performance with fewer lines of code when compared to Java or C.
The frontend and backend are easier to keep in sync, because of a single language used on both sides of the application.
Developer-wise, it also became possible to share and reuse code.
With the help of node modules, which are basically independent chunks of code, developers can use prebuilt modules or reuse their own.
It is highly scalable and lightweight — that’s why it’s a heavy favorite for microservice architectures.
It fits well for designing such architectures with the help of Node modules which represent building blocks of Node.JS functions.
It’s used to compile JavaScript into machine code instead of using an interpreter. JavaScript community notes constant improvements in the engine, as Google continues to invest heavily in it.
The non-blocking input-output model solves performance issues. The performance is enhanced by concurrent request processing which uses a single thread event loop.
Node.JS is an open-source project that gathered a vast community of developers providing ready-made solutions and guides for each issue on Github.
Node.JS may become suitable for processing CPU-bound tasks and used for machine learning-based calculations in the near future.

Companies which use nodeJS

Paypal
Netflix
LinkedIn
Uber
eBay
Yahoo

By looking at the above pros and the giants in the IT industry which uses Node, we can see that there is nothing to wonder why nodeJS is so popular. According to the pay scale, the salary for a NodeJS developer varies been $40,000-$130,000. So why not choose nodeJS?

Why Should You Use Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is also a java-based open-source backend framework which used to build microservices. It is also knowing as a framework which bootstraps a spring application. In another hand, it is a tool to create standalone spring applications. If you are willing to move in to spring in 2021, first check out why you should choose Spring Boot.

Pros of Spring Boot

Can create standalone spring applications with minimal effort, development process, and configurations. We can simply start those applications using the java-jar command.
If the bootstrapping process of the spring-boot application fails at the beginning, the inbuilt failure analyzer will give a path o fix issues.
Spring-boot has the support of embedded servers like Tomcat, Jetty, etc. So e do not need to deeply .war files in external servers.
To simplify the maven configurations, it provides opinionated starter POMs.
It has the ability to automatically configure spring.
Spring-boot can integrate with other frameworks as well as hibernate and stoats.
It provides production-ready configurations like metrics health and externalized configurations.
We do not need to do XML configurations or code generations when using spring-boot.
Spring-boot decreases the effort of developers by using conversion over configuration software design paradigm.

Companies which use spring

Platform
Intuit
MIT
Zillow
TransferWise

To be honest, I am not a person who is in love with Java. So, at a point, I will not use spring-boot as my backend framework for 2021. But, as per the stats, there are a lot of people who use spring-boot. According to the pay scale, the average salary for a spring-boot developer is varying between $50,000 and $104,000 manually, which is a little bit lower than a nodeJS developer.

Why You Should Choose Django?

Django is an open-source backend development framework built with Python. As we know, Python is one of the most loved programming languages in the whole universe. It is the main reason that Django will become one of the most popular backend frameworks. Other than that, there are many reasons that you should choose Django as your backend framework for 2020.

Pros of Django

Django allows us to easily create dynamic web apps using Python. It’s written in Python, which is the most important advantage of Django.
It supports MVC programming methods. So, developers are able to keep the UI layer and business logic layer separately in Django applications.
It is fast, but not bloated. What it means is that it does a great job to cut the time it takes to make a website down. You can rapidly develop your applications without the framework being bloated.
Django is not a thin microservice framework. It is very powerful and versatile and it does have idiosyncrasies.
It takes security seriously and provides tools to help you to do the same thing as developers. I’m sure we all are aware of the growing trend of cybersecurity breaches in these days. So, security is crucial and Django provides a user authentication system and tools of rank SQL injections, cross-site scriptings, cross-site request forgery, clip jacking, etc.
The amount of code is always lesser than any other programming language.
Developers are able to model their core classes and domains. Therefore, the ORM is always there for you.
It is cross-platform. So, Django works flexibly with most of the databases and operating systems.
It is scalable. So, developers will be able to scale and modify applications according to future requirements.
Django has a large and active support community. So, help is always there for you.

Companies which use Django

Mozilla Firefox
NASA
Pinterest
Bitbucket
Instagram

Since Django is based on Python, there is no doubt about the speed of the framework and the support for it. Also, by looking at the companies which using Django, we can see that Django has become a promising framework up to 2020. So be it with 2021 as well. If we look at the average salary for a Django developer, it varies between $90,000 to $120,000 manually. From the numbers, we can see that the demand for a Django developer is quite high.

Conclusion

As we can see, NodeJS and Django have done significantly well at the end of the story even though spring-boot got some extra numbers. By considering all the availability of the resources and the community, I think NodeJS is at its peak for 2021 as well. Even though Django is a great blackened framework to be used for 2021, still NodeJS at its top because there is a solid platform for NodeJS as a runtime environment and a huge community.

Thanks!

References

Source: Medium

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