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Drupal
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Great for enterprise use
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
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Steep learning curve
Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time.
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Free and open source
Drupal is free to use and open source.
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High resource consumption
A more complex Dupal installation can easily exhaust 256 MB of RAM with only one or two visitors.
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Active community
Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles.
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Documentation is a joke
With currently 3 different version of drupal in active use, and at that constantly changing capibilities within 2 of those, it means that when you look for documentation is if often for a different version that you are running and in addition is not at all easy to consume. Often the info you need is in comment #100 of a thread.
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Great templating engine
Twig is a game changer!
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Lacks good free modules and themes
Most good third-party modules and themes are costly.
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Multi-lingual support
Starting with Drupal 8, there's built-in multi-lingual support.
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It's easy to transfer config changes from dev to production
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Highly customizable
Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions.
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RESTful
Drupal 8 has REST services built in.
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Good accessibility
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Drupal has full SEO capabilities
(vs Joomla, which lacks SEO capabilities), there is an essential issue for promotion.
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Semantic HTML5
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Excellent SEO
Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO.
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Responsive front-end and back-end
Drupal 8 follows responsive design philosophy out of the box, both front-end and back-end.
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Drupal 8 and higher leverage composer and all of the wonderful PHP packages. Instead of building functionality from scratch, it utilizes existing libraries
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GPLv2+
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ProcessWire
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Nice and helpful growing community
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
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Custom Fields on steroids
ProcessWire is heavily based on custom fields. All objects (Pages) inside ProcessWire are based on extensible templates comprised of fields that can be easily defined. Many useful fields come prebuilt and they can be extended with modules.
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Easy to learn
Processwire is extremely easy to learn. Consider this: echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->title; // "Hello World" echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->parent->title; // "Home" echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->count; // 126 echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->each('title'); // ['Audio', 'Video' …] Selectors are so powerful but yet so easy. Check out the cheatsheet.
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Powerful and easy API
The API is jQuery like; // find some pages: $pages->find('template=skyscraper, architect=john, sort=title')->limit(4); // mutate $pages->get('title=Hello You')->set('title', 'HelloWorld')->save(); $pages->get('title=Old')->trash(); // trash page // check user… $user->isLogedin(); echo $user->name; // guest $session->login($name, $pass); $session->logout(); // redirect $session->redirect($url);
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Powerful selector engine
The way you fetch, access and manipulate objects (Pages) in ProcessWire is extremely powerful and easy. You can receive any page and its custom fields, filter, travers, add…
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Template Engine Agnostic
By default, ProcessWire comes with 0 assumption on how you handle the output. You have 100% freedom on how you want to develop the frontend. Want to plain output stuff, go ahead. Want to use any number of Templating Engine, do it. Just use as Headless-CMS, okay!
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Extensible
Either using the modules already available or writing your own module, using the jQuery-like API.
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Open source
Source available on GitHub.
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License:
MPL 2.0 and MIT licenses
Price:
Free
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Language:
PHP
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WordPress
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Complete control if needed
If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit.
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A bit of bloat and complexity
WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such it's not as lightweight as it used to be. It also considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions.
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Widely used
According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options.
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Dated
The code is a mess, uses dated conventions, and relies on dated technology.
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Self-host & WP-host options
For free WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of wordpress.com. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting.
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Open source
Anyone can view the code of WordPress since it's under a libre/open source license.
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RSS feeds for everything
Including tags and categories.
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Post-level privacy controls
Each post can have a different access level.
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License:
GPLv2
Language:
PHP
Default Template Engine:
PHP
Store Support:
Yes (Plugin)
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ExpressionEngine
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No restrictions on how a site can be designed
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Simple pages can hurt performance
A simple page can rack up on database queries. Many sites usually suffer from this. Create an empty page and there's a few queries that run and it's unneccessary.
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Focus on security
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Can be overkill for simple or smaller sites
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Commercial support
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Cost is high
Especially for commercial sites
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Built on top of codeigniter: an outdated framework
Codeigniter was cool.... back when PHP was at 5.2
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TYPO3
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Writing or debugging extension in Typoscript is a nightmare
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Flexible multi-lingual site management
You can use both one-tree and multi-tree structure.
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Multiple websites/domains from one installation
You can use a single TYPO3 installation for multiple websites and domains.
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TYPO3 is enterprise
TYPO3 can be used from small to very big installations where it is possible to give rights to users on a very fine grained basis.
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Flextype
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Dynamic Content Types
Define unlimited custom fields for any of your entries.
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Same CMS repackaged
Same CMS that got regurgitated over and over for years.
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Free
MIT-licensed open source project and completely free to use.
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No external DB required
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Built-in REST API
Provides APIs organized around Representational State Transfer (REST) for working with content.
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Version Control
It is easy to version control all content in Flextype with GIT or any other Version Control System.
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Flexible
Simple but powerful Core API's.
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Super Fast
Elegance architecture and built-in smart cache.
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Tokenized API
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
License:
MIT
Technology:
PHP
Multi Language Support:
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Django CMS
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Mature
Django CMS is a very mature project, with many core developers working on it constantly and adding new features and bug fixes.
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May be an overkill for a simple blog
Django CMS project is a large and complex project, comparable to Wordpress. As such, it may be too much for a simple personal blog considering that it has many features that may never be used in that particular occasion.
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Can integrate with existing apps
Django CMS is more of a Django plugin which can easily be integrated with any Django app to add CMS functionality to it.
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Double click to edit
You can double click items to edit them or add pages directly on the website (as long as you're logged in as admin). It simplifies content creation and touch-ups.
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Easy to extend
Documents are organized in a tree. You can either create new content area type, new tree nodes, integrate complete existing Django app in the tree, etc. It's pretty easy usually.
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Internationalization (multi-language) support
Having a website in more than one language can be very challenging and DJango-CMS supports it well. Switching between languages while keeping on the page for example.
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Leaf
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Simple structure
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
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Lack of a database layer
Has inbuilt connection methods for only mysqli and pdo.
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Useful classes
Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
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Beautiful, well organised documentation
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REST-based
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License:
MIT
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October 2019
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Statamic
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Multi-lingual support baked into the core
No need for plugins.
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Not free
Limits adoption. Might not be the best choice for small/no-budget projects.
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Great support
Since it's a premium product, you have easy access to the devs, either through their Slack channel or through email or the official forums.
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Developers have extra incentive to maintain it, considering it's a commercial product
So it keeps the bar high. Provides extra-incentive for the developers to fix bugs and make sure it maintains solid.
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Can work as a static site generator
Can be used as a flat-file CMS with the option to wire-up a database if needed.
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Great documentation
The documentation is extremely detailed and explains everything thoroughly.
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KeystoneJS
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Out-of-the-box Admin UI
Keystone comes with an auto-generated Admin UI, which makes things very easy for any task that can be completed using Keystone. In any way Keystone is used, the Admin interfaces saves a lot of time and makes any job easier.
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It does not have a built-in roles system
Although registering a new user is very easy, there is not any roles system out-of-the-box. There is only a check box "Access keystone" which gives a user full administrative power. Adding different kind of users is only possible by editing the user data model.
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Keystone comes with Express already configured
Express comes out of the box already configured from Keystone or it can be treated like any other Express Middleware.
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Horrible documentation; Keystone5 is unfinished and the team dumped it for a whole (stripped down) new version
Team even admits to a lot of areas being undocumented. Just spent 5 months implementing Keystone5 just to have it marked for deprecation. Next version removes DB Adapters (the entire reason for us implementing it). This project is poorly managed, and extremely difficult to extend due to incomplete documentation.
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Keystone has easy form processing
Using the data models defined by the developer, Keystone can validate forms automatically without any more setup. Form validation doesn't get easier than this.
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No auto-reload and no good support for RDBMS
Does not have auto-reload in its backend. Hard to debug. Features found in document, absent in code. No enough support to PostgresQL, no automatic migration
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Many cool features
Great CMS with auto-generated admin, schemas...
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No default option to add pages in admin panel
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Easy to install and use
KeystoneJS is very easy to install and use.
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It's hard for front-end developers with no MVC experience setting up views
Keystone follows MVC practices in managing routes, views and templates. Back-end developers with experience in working with MVC frameworks will find themselves at ease since the beginning, but developers who work on the front-end only will have a hard time finding what they are supposed to do to set up templates and such.
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Easy email management features
With Keystone it is easy to set up an email management system for an application. It has template-based emails and it's also integrated with Mandrill (Mailchimp's transaction email sending service)
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Some working knowledge of JavaScript, NPM and Databases is needed
MongoDB is required to be up and running and a Yeoman generator is used to generate the application. Although the prompt based start-up in the command line helps you a lot, it still can be hard for someone inexperienced with NPM and Yeoman.
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Keystone uses MongoDB through Mongoose
Keystone allows the usage of MongoDB since it comes with Mongoose, the most popular ODM for node and Mongo, this means that anything that is built using Mongo can be built with Keystone.
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Packaging externals libraries is tricky
Unless you want to import every JS.
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Numerous amounts of templating engines are supported
Keystone supports almost all templating engines out there. Although it uses Jade directly after a fresh install and it points to using it further, other template engines can be installed and used instead.
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Effective session management
Keystone has advanced and effective session management and authentication features. Logging in and signing up is easy and it even has password encryption out of the box.
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Webhook
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MIT Open Source
A very flexible license to do whatever you want. Code available on GitHub.
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Requires registration
Even simple command line tools require registration.
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Friendly CMS that clients can use
Webhook has a CMS admin page that can be access on the live site. This lets your clients login and edit the site like a traditional CMS system.
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Works with Firebase
Rather than store the data in flat files, Webhook stores your data in Firebase, where it can be accessed similar to JSON from other applications.
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Flexible Content Creation
Lets you describe your own content types and their own fields easily from the admin interface.
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Multi Language Support:
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prismic.io
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Translation workflows made easy
Get task driven views for translators.
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A bit more knowledge needed than others
Technical skill is required to set up the webserver, choosing a platform, template language, etc. It's on a different level than Wordpress, but you get a huge amount of freedom and flexibility if you can manage the front-end coding.
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Frontend is completely up to you
Free yourself from the complicated structure of other CMS's. You get the data as JSON through an API call, for displaying anywhere and anyhow you want.
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Grav CMS
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Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
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Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
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Kirby CMS
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Kirby is a file‑based CMS
Installing means uploading some files to your server and that's it.
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Euro 99,– per domain
Kirby CMS costs Euro 99,– (plus VAT) per installation. There is no longer a discount for private websites.
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Great Community
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Kirby 3 pricing went up
The price went up with Kirby 3 as the CMS grew. It's still worth it but maybe not for small websites. Tip: They sometimes offer social pricing on demand for small structures or students.
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Good support
Well documented and friendly community.
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Price model
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Markdown syntax
Write your content with plain Markdown or use Kirbytext.
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Custom panel
You can create custom panel (admin section) for every page type with ease.
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Very customisable
From very simple pages to highly customised content models, almost anything is possible. Fast prototyping.
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Great community
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Open source
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Not free for commercial
This is good thing. Free CMS always have some hidden pricing model that you eventually pay actually more than this.
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Super Flexible
The entire CMS is extremely flexible and very easy to use.
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Open for unconvetional/exoerimental solutions
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Languages:
PHP
Multi Language Support:
Yes
PHP version:
7.3+
Template Engine:
PHP
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fasty
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It's flexible
You can add partials and link a partial to a specific dataset (e.g. an AQL request) so creating dynamic content is easy.
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young project
the doc, the website is still not ready
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Workflow
Work on a staging website and deploy on production (1 click)
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It need Docker
If you know how to use docker it's very easy ... if not, it can be complicated.
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Blazing fast
it has a built-in cache.
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API Builder
You can manage your API directly within the admin UI. No need to deploy ... You just need to click on the publish button
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License:
MIT
Price:
OPEN SOURCE / FREE
Multi Language Support:
Yes
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Lua / Javascript / Moonscirpt
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Nette
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Built around good programming practices
Nette is built to help developers create good, maintainable code using the DRY principle.
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Hard to find information in English
Nette is mostly used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and most of the information coming from third-party sources is not in English.
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Open source
Nette is open source and is distributed under the MIT license.
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Flight
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Uses static methods
Since Flight uses static methods, it does not require for the application class to be instantiated.
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Cannot use ArrayAccess
The fact that it uses static methods means that it's impossible for Flight to make use of ArrayAccess, which in turns means that it cannot inject dependencies easily.
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Open source
Flight is open source and is released under the MIT license.
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Filters
A unique feature of Flight is something that the author calls filters. Filters are functions which can be executed before and after any other function and can change the parameters and the output of said function. This feature is used instead of hooks which in other frameworks are used to execute code into different parts of the application's life-cycle.
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Aura Framework
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LICENSE
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High quality, well tested code
This framework has highly tested code. It is very reliable. In fact, most of its libraries have gone through scrutinizer-ci.com and they all score very high.
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Small community
Aura's community is still relatively small and it can be a little hard to find help or guides if you get stuck somewhere.
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Loosely coupling allows for lots of flexibility
Aura is a loosely coupled collection of independent libraries with no base classes. This allow for extreme flexibility in choosing what libraries are needed.
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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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open qoob
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Still under active development
This framework is still in beta stage and under active development. This means that a lot of stuff may be subject to change and some features may not be 100% complete yet.
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Open source
Open Qoob is completely free and open source. It's hosted on GitHub.
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Has auto loading classes
This framework uses PHP's spl_autoload methods to automatically load classes. This means that if the class is inside the project folder structure, there's no need to call, include or require it.
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Simple and lightweight
Qoob is made to create simple REST APIs and not full-blown applications. Therefore it's quite lightweight.
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