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ASP.NET Razor Pages

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Free ASP.NET framework for page-based web apps, recommended as a sensible stack with server-side logic and reusable partial components.

Free ASP.NET framework for page-based web apps, recommended as a sensible stack with server-side logic and reusable partial components.

6 people gave an opinion

recommend it
6
criticize it
0
approval share
100%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 4 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
  • Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.

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Other web frameworks people recommend

The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

ASP.NET Razor Pages compared with 4 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
Ruby on Rails33714570%1214 yrs38 ownersApproved
Django2779774%1215 yrs38 ownersApproved
Next.js12725633%123 yrs6 owners—
Phoenix Framework851189%128 yrs7 ownersApproved
ASP.NET Razor PagesThis page60100%4——
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What people said

All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“Is a very sane tech stack”

RecommendsComment from 3 Sep 2026 in “GPT-6 Astra”

“suggested an insane techstack involving C#, Razor Pages, MSSQL and more”

MixedComment from 3 Sep 2026 in “GPT-6 Astra”

“You can build and reuse components with partials”

RecommendsComment from 15 Jul 2026 in “How I use HTMX with Go”

“With this arrangement the newest models tend to make a really good call on if something should happen server-side”

RecommendsComment from 24 May 2026 in “Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation”

“any interaction is done via CSS (which you can do perfectly well in razor pages)”

RecommendsComment from 12 Nov 2025 in “.NET 10”

“We all use apps built with these every day without even realizing it.”

RecommendsComment from 12 Nov 2025 in “.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.