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Yii
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Rapid development through code scaffolding
Yii takes care of repetitive tasks through Gii, a web-based scaffolding tool. Gii takes care of code generation and creating code templates for: Models Controllers Forms Modules Extensions CRUD controller actions and views There are a lot of scaffolding templates made by community for Gii, that improve generated code functionality by a lot. Gii is very easy to extend yourself.
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Can be hard for beginners
Since Yii requires developers to write code following certain rules, or in other words, it requires developers to follow the "Yii way of doing things" it can be hard for beginners to warm up to it and start using it right away.
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Comes with important security standarts
Since security is a crucial part of any application, Yii comes with great security features out of the box to help developers create a secure and reliable application. These security features contain but are not restricted to: Input validation Output filtering Features against SQL injection Cross-site scripting prevention
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Not very good at many to many relations
(but there is a good plugin, namely CAdvancedArBehavior extension to do this)
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Highly extensible
Yii is built to be extremely extensible. Virtually every component of the framework can be extended programmatically. For example, if you want to add a unique id to your views, it's very easy to do: namespace app\components; class View extends yii\web\View { public $bodyId; /* Yii allows you to add magic getter methods by prefacing method names with "get" */ public function getBodyIdAttribute() { return ($this->bodyId != '') ? 'id="' . $this->bodyId . '"' : ''; } }
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Integrated with a testing framework
Yii makes use of Codeception, a great PHP testing framework that helps developers run their tests. They can be unit, functional or acceptance tests since Codeception supports them all.
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Lots of plugins available
Yii has about 2000 addons hosted on Yii's official website. These addons significantly decrease development time and increase the developer's efficiency.
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License
Yii is free and open source and is distributed under the BSD License.
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Strong community support
Yii has a strong and rather large community behind it. This is proven by the great number of blog posts, tutorials, guides and reviews on the Yii framework as well as the great number of extensions developed for it.
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Easy to install
Yii uses Composer to handle it's dependency installation. This is rather easy and not very time consuming, although it should be noted that Composer is very resource-intensive considering what it's job is. But that is not really Yii's fault.
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Best framework for CRUD operation
Yii Framework Provides most of features require for crud functionalities like GridView, Listview and DetailView (with jquery search and validation functions) by generating using GII.
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Highly extensible without effort
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PHP version:
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Twig
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Dropwizard
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Enhanced productivity and less timewasting
The application can be run and debugged from the IDE without the need to recompile or redeploy the WAR file. This is because a Dropwizard web application creates on main program which starts the jetty container.
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Does not allow a lot a freedom of choice
Dropwizard removes a lot of freedom that the developer may have with other frameworks because of the fact that it tries to do everything itself. It chooses the best Java libraries for the job required, without allowing the developer much choice.
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Application metrics integrated into the framework
Dropwizard comes with application metrics integrated out of the box. These metrics provide a lot of useful information such as request/response time. For example, to get the execution time of a method, the @Timed annotation is used.
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Quick project bootstrap
Starting a project with Dropwizard si very easy and bootstraping is quick and painless. All that's needed is a single dependency added in the pom.xml file and it's ready to go.
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Bottle
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Flexible
Being a small one file distribution it includes almost every vital thing you need to support little websites (routing, templating). Everything else can be implemented using plugins.
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Small community. Difficult to find online docs and examples
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Single-file distribution
Bottle works around the one-file approach, everything is done in a bottle.py file. This means that it's extremely easy to share and upload your application since it practically is just one python file.
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Very hard to develop projects that are not smaller than 1000 lines
While Bottle is a great framework for building small applications (generally less than 1000 lines of code), it starts getting very hard to manage your application if you want to go even a bit larger than that. The fact that it follows a single-file distribution model and that it's missing something like Flask's blueprints only make this problem worse.
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No need to install
It is so little there's no need to install, it is included in the standard libs python.
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Async, *let friendly
Using it with gevent is a breeze. It's a WSGI app so it's easy to make it work with anything.
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Pyramid
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Very flexible
Pyramid can be used for creating small applications quickly and easily, but it also powers up large enterprise-scale applications such as Dropbox.
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The great number of options it offers can become intimidating
One of Pyramid's greatest drawbacks is that it requires a lot of set up in the beginning of a project. This can feel overwhelming and can keep people away from using it.
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Persistence agnostic
Either NoSQL and SQL (including SQLAlchemy plugin).
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Comes with security included
Includes authorization and authentication with multiple backends.
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Python
Default Template Engine:
Jinja2
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SqlAlchemy
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Hapi
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Backed by a major corporation
Hapi was developed and is still being used by Walmart. Being backed by such a major company means that it will not lose support any time soon and most importantly it's being developed by professionals and that you will always get support for it.
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Requires too much boilerplate
Hapi seems to be made with large applications in mind. The sheer amount of boilerplate code it requires is simply not practical for a small web app. This also means that there are few examples of Hapi applications around for beginners to learn from.
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Consistency across applications
Hapi's philosophy is that configuration is more important than code. This is especially useful for very large teams because it helps developers maintain consistency and reusability throughout their code.
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Platforms:
Cross-platform
License:
BSD-3-Clause
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JavaScript
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TsED
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Brings MVC to Express
One of the conns of Express (even in this site) is the lack of structure. This framework brings structure to Express applications which makes large-scale development much easier
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Uses decorators
Similar to most other popular frameworks
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Adding string types to Express with Typescript
Express is already an awesome framework, but with types it makes the work much easier
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Great support
Any issue opened gets resolved or answered very quickly
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Great documentation
Updated regularly
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CodeBehind
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Modern
CodeBehind is a modern framework with revolutionary ideas.
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Code-Behind
Code-Behind pattern will be fully respected.
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Under .NET Core
Your project will still be under ASP.NET Core and you will benefit from all the benefits of .NET Core.
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Get output
You can call the output of the aspx page in another aspx page and modify its output.
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Modular
It is modular. Just copy the new project files, including dll and aspx, into the current active project.
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Simple
Developing with CodeBehind is very simple. You can use mvc pattern or model-view or controller-view or only view.
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Fast
The CodeBehind framework is faster than the default structure of cshtml pages in ASP.NET Core.
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Phalcon
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Extremely fast
Since the framework is and extension built in C it's extremely fast and efficient. It's actually one of the fastest PHP frameworks, and according to some benchmarks it's the fastest framework out there.
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Not for shared hosting
Phalcon needs root access to install the PHP extension which is written in C. Developers who plan on using Phalcon must use VPS or Cloud Hosting with root access available.
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Open source
Phalcon is open source and is available under the BSD License.
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Require good programming skills
Not so easy to use if you want to gain the best from it.
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Uses Volt template engine
The Volt template engine, which is embedded into Phalcon itself takes it's inspiration from the Jinja template engine and as such it's nice to look at, with a clear and understandable syntax. Volt also compiles very fast, like Phalcon itself, so it avoids being a bottleneck for the framework's overall speed.
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Debugging requires knowledge of C
You need to be a C programmer to debug Zephir or C code. Or if Phalcon is not maintained anymore and you have a problem and don't have much skills in C, you will be hard-pressed to find a C programmer to fix it.
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Very flexible project structure
You can set up the base project as you want. It's very flexible
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Clean and light project code
Since the framework code is not in the project directory, the code is light and clean.
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Customizable with Zephir
Zephir is a high-level language designed to create PHP extensions easily by PHP programmers with no knowledge in C. Zephir does this by compiling directly to C and then the C program is in turn compiled to be run as a PHP extension. This, coupled with the fact that Zephir's syntax is very similar to PHP makes it a perfect way for PHP developers to use it for customizing Phalcon.
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Loosely coupled components
Some components can be used as standalone packages like models, views, etc..
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Rocket
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Easy To Use
Rocket makes extensive use of Rust's code generation tools to provide a clean API.
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Abandoned
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Streams
Rocket streams all incoming and outgoing data, so size isn't a concern.
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Nightly
Uses only nightly versions of Rust.
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Cookies
View, add, or remove cookies, with or without encryption, without hassle.
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Testing Library
Unit test your applications with ease using the built-in testing library.
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Extensible
Easily create your own primitives that any Rocket application can use.
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Templating
Rocket makes rendering templates a breeze with built-in templating support.
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Query Strings
Handling query strings and parameters is type-safe and easy in Rocket.
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Type Safe
From request to response Rocket ensures that your types mean something.
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Boilerplate Free
Spend your time writing code that really matters, and let Rocket generate the rest.
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Config Environments
Configure your application your way for development, staging, and production.
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Written in:
Rust
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Revel
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Non-idiomatic code
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Comes bundled with a code reload tool
Revel comes bundled with a code reload tool which rebuilds the project on every file change. This code reload tool is also used to run, build and deploy the Revel application that you are building.
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Outdated
The world has moved past its MVC obsession. It's not the way the web works anymore. The good thing about go is that it's trivial to write a server applications (literally takes minutes). relying on a bloated, archaic framework is missing the point
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Good examples easy to understand with simple emulated MVC behavior
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Dead
Thankfully, this abomination is no longer being developed
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No need to find and install external libraries
Revel is a "batteries included" web framework, which means that a lot of features already come out of the box. This way you don't have to spend time and find third-party libraries to integrate to the framework for most of the tasks you need to complete.
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No official support for mongo
Revel does not come with any support for MongoDB, you can integrate third-party libraries but they have been reported to crash under heavy load.
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Easy to learn for fast development
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License:
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N2O
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Fast binary data
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Unfriendly developer community
Developers are often rude and unfriendly to users.
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Binary encoding and protocols
Here is a list of types of endpoints which are supported by EMQ and accesible to N2O apps: WebSockets, MQTT, MQTT-SN, TCP, UDP, CoAP. Normal use of N2O as a Web Framework or a Web Application Server is through WebSockets, but for IoT and MQTT applications it could be served through UDP or SCTP protocols providing application level message delivery consistency.
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Bad documentation
It has bad documentation, which leaves out crucial steps, making it hard to learn.
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Price:
FREE
Initial Release:
0.4
Default Template Engine:
NITRO
Default ORM:
KVS
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Koa
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Generator support from ground up
Using generators (a bleeding edge feature, even for Node.js) would clean up your code from the mess caused by all those callbacks; making your code more manageable.
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Community is relatively small
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Extremely lightweight
Koa is very lightweight with just 550 lines of code.
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Not compatible with express style middleware
Koa uses generators which are not compatible with any other type of Node.js framework middleware.
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async/await keywords are supported and has transcended beyond generator functions
Generators functions are of course a huge plus, but at the time Koa team has transcended generations functions and shifted towards async/await style programming. It has made the Koa best framework available in the market.
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Has no routes separated by HTTP method or URL pattern
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Development team has a proven track record
Koa is developed by the team behind a widely used node.js framework (express.js).
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Wrong Middle ware, security issue
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Built for ES6
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FastAPI
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Dependency injection
It has a simple but powerful dependency injection system, it can be used to handle authentication, per-user rate limiting, authorization controls (e.g. with roles), etc.
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Smaller community
Since FastAPI is relatively new, its community is smaller than Django Rest Framework. But it can grow with time.
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Standards
It is based on standards: OpenAPI, JSON Schema and OAuth 2.0.
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Data validation
It validates the data using the types you declared. Even in deeply nested JSON requests.
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High-performance
It's based on Starlette and Pydantic, so, it's one of the fastest Python frameworks.
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Editor completion
It is based on Python type declarations, so, editors and tools can give great support. Including type checks and autocompletion everywhere.
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One of the fastest growing communities
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Fast is really fast (!)
It's easy to develop API based applications in Python on deadlines for Android and IOS Development.
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Automatic docs
It generates interactive API documentation automatically from your code.
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Database independent
It's independent of database or ORM, but compatible with all of them. Including relational databases and NoSQL.
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Async IO / optional
It's based on Async IO, which gives it high concurrency. But you can use non-async libraries and it runs them appropriately.
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World class documentation
It has some of the best documentation of any framework.
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WebSockets
Because it's an async framework, it can handle async-native protocols like WebSockets.
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OAuth 2.0
It has integrated support for OAuth 2.0. Including declaring required scopes per endpoint. So, you can easily integrate it with external OAuth 2.0 providers or build your own with it.
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Background tasks
Included support for background tasks, thanks to being based on Starlette.
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Supports GraphQL
Python's graphene library is included as an optional dependency meaning that GraphQL API's are supported out of the box, with no additional tweaking needed.
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Platforms:
Cross-platform
License:
MIT
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standard and feature rich micro-framework
Initial Release:
2019
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Luminus
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ClojureScript for client-side scripting
Luminus allows using ClojureScript for client-side development. This allows sharing things like validation logic between the server and the client.
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Luminus is flexible
Luminus is built on a stack of composable libraries that can be easily swapped to make the application fit the needs of the user. The applications are generated using Leiningen templates and can be initialized with a specific set of features, such as database connections, needed for a specific application.
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Good documentation
Luminus provides step-by-step documentation on how to accomplish common tasks.
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Simple to setup and use
Luminus is small and flexible. It's geared towards interactive development using the REPL. You can see your changes as you're working without having to restart the application.
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Ruby on Rails
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Massive community with lots of tutorials and guides
The sheer scale and massive number of developers using Rails has produced a large number of guides, tutorials, plugins, documentation, videos and anything that can help new and old Rails developers.
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Learning curve seems low at first, but starts becoming steeper
Rails' simplicity is deceptive. It's learning curve is really low at first, and the huge number of tutorials and guides out there for starting with Rails make it even easier. But it starts getting harder and harder as apps become more complicated. If good code conventions and OO design are not followed, then the codebase will be all over the place and it becomes impossible to maintain it.
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Many plugins (gems) available
There are many third-party plugins (Ruby gems) available for Rails development. The larger ones and those that have a lot of downloads and users are very well documented and easy to use.
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Too much magic
So much behavior is implemented with dynamic behind-the-scenes changes to existing classes that obscure bugs are way too common. Conflicting interactions between multiple plugins that both try to change the same objects are a particularly pernicious example.
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Ruby is a nice readable language
Ruby has a very clean syntax that makes code easier to both read and write than more traditional Object Oriented languages, such as Java. For beginning programmers, this means the focus is on the meaning of the program, where it should be, rather than trying to figure out the meaning of obscure characters. presidents = ["Ford", "Carter", "Reagan", "Bush1", "Clinton", "Bush2"] for ss in 0...presidents.length print ss, ": ", presidents[presidents.length - ss - 1], "\n"; end
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Too much convention
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Good conventions
MVC is a great starting point, and perfect for APIs. You'll rarely if ever have to wonder "where should I put this code?"
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Not a very popular language outside of web development
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Small projects are very easy and it's possible to finish one in very little time
The large number of documentation, tutorials, videos and guides which help new developers who are just starting with Rails make it seem very easy to create a small and simple application by relying on code generation and components that come out of the box with Rails.
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Bad performance
Among the slowest frameworks. If you want to scale, you will have to migrate to another land.
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Cool language
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Supported on every major cloud or VPS hosting service
Rails is supported on every major Cloud hosting service nowadays. There are also countless tutorials that help developers deploy their Rails apps if there are any problems on the way.
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Meta-programming capabilities
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Written in:
Ruby
Default Template Engine:
ERB
Default ORM:
ActiveRecord
Default Test Engine:
RSpec & Cucumber
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Yesod
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Offers templating for type-safe, well-formed content
While not required, Yesod offers templating through a Shakespearean family of languages to produce page code.
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Is hard to customize
Learning how Yesod works internally is hard. It is a large framework with complicated components. Finding the appropriate code and understanding how it contributes to the framework is difficult, meaning developers will struggle.
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Uses type-safe URLs
Ensures that data provided by the URL is type-safe. This means that data in the URL has a definitive type.
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Too much template haskell
You actually want to code in haskell and not some DSL with "magic" hidden under the bonnet.
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Can be used without knowing much Haskell
While Yesod is written in Haskell, developers can achieve basic functionality without much investment in the language.
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License:
MIT
Price:
free
Written in:
Haskell
Repository:
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CodeIgniter
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Beginner-friendly
Setting up CodeIgniter is quick and easy. You can download the version you want from the CI homepage or directly pull the latest version from GitHub. After that, you unzip the contents to the directory that's required. The final step is to edit the config.php to suit your needs and it's set up and ready for development. There are also a lot of guides and tutorials from developers who have been using CI for a long time. This is because of the relative old age of the framework and the large community behind it.
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Outdated
CodeIgniter was first released during the times of PHP 4. This means that a lot of features that were added later to PHP are not available. Some of these features are: Support for namespaces Modular separation by default Procedural function helpers While nowadays CodeIgniter can be used along the latest version of PHP, these features were not added so as not to mess with backward compatibility. They can still be used with CI, but it requires extending core files to make it work which is a waste of time and energy and requires advanced knowloedge of both PHP and CI.
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Lightweight
CodeIgniter has a small footprint, just 3MB and that's including the user guide.
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No unit testing
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Well documented
The documentation is clear, structured and thorough. It explains both commonly used and CodeIgniter specific concepts and always with clear examples.
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It does not have basic functions
Some of the missing features include controller security, filters in forms and modoles, rules of validation, among others.
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Active community
Because it's relatively old and well-liked, it has an active community of developers behind it. It's used by a lot of websites in production.
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Open source
The MIT License (MIT) CodeIgniter is open source and is distributed under the MIT license.
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Stable
CodeIgniter is tested by hundreds of thousand of developers that use it in production. This means that it's very hard for any bugs or problems to go unnoticed. Even when a new version is out, bugs are quickly found and patched up.
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Easy to use templating engine
CodeIgniter has it's own templating engine built-in. It's based on a mustache-like templating language which is easy to learn for new developers who have never seen it. While experienced developers will feel very comfortable using it.
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Output caching
CodeIgniter lets you cache the web pages in order to decrease loading times and increase efficiency and performance.
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CodeIgniter v4 is a complete rewrite
CI4 will be out soon & is a rewrite.. "CodeIgniter 4 is a rewrite of the framework and is not backwards compatible." So it will support ALOT more newer functionality built-in.
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PHP version:
5.4.8+
Default Template Engine:
Custom CodeIgniter engine
Default ORM:
DataMapper ORM
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Symfony
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Open Source
Symfony is open source and released under the MIT license.
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Settings
Too many configurations.
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Easy debugging with a built-in debug toolbar
Symfony comes with a built-in toolbar that helps developers debug their applications during the development phase. The toolbar is also extendable and new components, called panels can be added if needed to help with the debugging process.
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Very hard to install
Setting it up on webhost without a console is difficult.
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Great plugin ecosystem
One of the greatest strengths of Symfony is it's amazing and large plugin ecosystem, which comes as a result of it's large and dedicated community. Having a large number of plugins means less development time and more productivity.
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Promotes bad development practices
Such as annotations via comments.
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Highly active community
Symfony has one of the most active communities out of all the PHP frameworks. This is shown by the high number of commits made every day in the GitHub repo.
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Doctrine ORM
Symfony Standard Edition, which is the most widely used distribution, comes integrated with Doctrine, the most resource hogging ORM library.
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Teaches you good practices
Symfony makes you be a better programmer. You have to deal with the latest object-oriented design patterns such as service-oriented architecture, dependency injection, interface abstraction, and so on.
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You need a lot of files to display a single page
For a simple hello world page you need about 5 files.
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Uses YAML/XML/PHP/Annotation
Symfony makes use of XML, YAML or PHP annotations to create configurations in order to tell Doctrine on how properties of a certain class should be.
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Powerful event system
Symfony has a powerful built-in event system that allows you to add flexibility to applications and makes it easier to maintain the codebase down the road.
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Great templating engine
Uses Twig, which is a simple and easy to learn templating language that can also be used as a standalone engine, outside the framework.
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Uses Doctrine ORM
Symfony makes use of the Doctrine ORM to add an abstraction layer over the database in order to maintain flexibility without having unnecessary code duplication.
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MIT License
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2005
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PHP
PHP version:
8.0.12
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Documentation is written in form of a book which is good for beginners
web2py documentation does not follow the common pattern of using Sphinx, MkDocs or ReadTheDocs which is goos for exeperienced developers. Although documentation in form of a book is very easy and good for beginners. Turning web2py the most easy and comprehensive framework to learn and also to teach.
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Abandoned framework with (almost) no community
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Web2py apps run on GAE, AWS, VPNs, PythonAnywhere, etc
Web2py apps are designed to be portable. With some minor restrictions web2py apps can run on any VPS on SQL databases and/or Mongo, as well as on Google App Engine with the Google Datastore. It is truly code ones and run everywhere. For example at Camio.com we use web2py internally to access a GAE datastore which contains more images than Instagram.
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The web IDE is not a full-featured IDE
web2py includes an "admin" app that serves as a web-based IDE for web2py applications. It includes many features, such as application creation, compiling, and packaging; an error ticketing system; a code editor; a debugger; a controller doctest runner; Git and Mercurial integration; and one-click deployment to PythonAnywhere, Google App Engine, and OpenShift. However, particularly with regard to code editing and debugging and version control integration, it is not as full-featured as some of the more popular desktop IDEs such as PyCharm. So, developers expecting a PyCharm-like experience may be somewhat disappointed. In any case, use of the web-based IDE is completely optional.
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User support
The web2py community is open and friendly and it gives concrete support to newbies and old timers. It's not difficult to get answers from the BDFL Massimo Di Pierro himself.
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Maintainable over time
One really positive aspect of web2py application is their maintainability over the years. Old code works even if the framework is updated to the latest version. Not only that, if code is written well it is very short and a new team can pick it up over in little time.
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PyCharm supports web2py
While web2py has its own web based IDE which is convenient, it works with WinIDE, PyCharm, and Eclipse. The first two explicitly support web2py. The latter requires some configuration.
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Easy to learn without losing any power
web2py is very easy to learn for beginners, yet it has a great deal of power and flexibility as application needs become more complex. It includes an impressively comprehensive set of features, making development very productive without the need to integrate a lot of third-party libraries.
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Can be tuned to be really fast in production
The framework is really fast in production after some optimization and fine tuning which can minimize the memory footprint in order to make it run on a really small VPS or slice.
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Easily extendable
Allows users to easily extend functionality by using external libraries.
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No need to import the API to access the models and controllers context at every request
Models and controllers live in the context of the HTTP request. So the developer does not have to import the API to access this context at every request. In other words, the models, controllers and templates in web2py use a domain specific language which uses pure web2py syntax and allows to import any module but exposes a few additional objects.
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Includes a web-based IDE for creating and managing applications
web2py includes an "admin" app that serves as a web-based IDE for web2py applications. It includes many features, such as application creation, compiling, and packaging; an error ticketing system; a code editor; a debugger; a controller doctest runner; Git and Mercurial integration; and one-click deployment to PythonAnywhere, Google App Engine, and OpenShift. It is not intended as a full desktop IDE replacement, but it includes some helpful web2py specific functionality and can be convenient for basic editing and debugging tasks and quick prototyping, even for those who primarily work with a more full-featured desktop IDE or editor.
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web2py supports the classic editor Vim
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Can sync events between different Node instances
Feather can sync events happening in two different Node processes or even servers in real-time. For example: an event happens in server A, the user connected to server B is instantly notified of that event. This is done through a central Redis or Mongo collection or through a websocket libraries' clustering library.
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Not so widely used
Could be problematic to convince the client use this framework in his/her project.
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Easy REST APIs
Through services, Feathers provides instant CRUD functionality, it also can easily expose a RESTful and real-time API through HTTP/HTTPS and websockets.
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Not very beginner friendly
Although the documentation for Feathers is very good, it still needs some configuration in order to get Feathers up for developing something with it.
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Can be integrated in an existing ExpressJS project
Since Feathers itself is built on top of Express (it's a thin wrapper over socket.io, primus and Express) and because of Feathers' highly modular nature, it's very easy to integrate Feathers in an existing Express project.
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Plug-in any feature you need
Feathers makes extensive use of modules (which are called Feathers services). These services work like ExpressJS middleware and can be used with app.use('/path', serviceObject). Services help developers keep their applications modular and as minimal as possible, without any unnecessary libraries or bloat.
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Support for different socket transports
FeatherJS uses primus which is a universal wrapper for real-time frameworks. Through primus you can easily choose which socket transport you want to use.
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