Vert.x. FubuMVC. Spring. CodeIgniter. A Brief History 2006: CodeIgniter was born. CodeIgniter is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, created by Rick Ellis in 2006. CodeIgniter was born from ExpressionEngine, essentially a collection of refactored classes originally written for EllisLab's flagship CMS. Stripped of the application-specific functionality, CodeIgniter was made to be a simple and elegant toolkit, enabling rapid development of both web sites and web applications, attracting thousands of talented PHP developers. 2008: Industry leader.
In an environment now saturated with PHP frameworks, CodeIgniter was for a long time the only solid choice for a developer who lived in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines. 2009: ExpressionEngine 2.0. Where is CodeIgniter Now? 2014: BCIT Stewardship. Play. Lift. Scalatra. Django.
Ruby on Rails. Node.js. ServiceStack. Nancy.