Who Is Hiring? Search › Top 8 backend frameworks
Which backend/web framework companies hire for in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: Rails, Django, Flask, Express, Spring, Laravel and Phoenix, charted by share of postings since 2011.
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Backend frameworks map almost one-to-one onto their language ecosystems, and the chart shows the generational handoff. Rails leads the early startup years as the default way to ship a web product; Django rises with Python and holds a durable base; Express tracks the Node wave; Spring carries the enterprise JVM demand; Laravel and Phoenix anchor the PHP and Elixir niches. Read the relative bands as a map of which server-side stack was fashionable when, and use the sample postings to see the kinds of companies that still hire for each - mature product shops for Rails, a broad startup-to-scale-up spread for Django and Express.
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