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What are the best web frameworks to create a web REST API?

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Express.js vs Go vs Spring Boot

 vs FastAPI vs Laravel vs Django vs Flask vs Phoenix vs ASP.NET Core vs Lumen vs Ruby on Rails vs Slim vs Node.js vs Loopback vs Adonisjs vs Yii vs Symfony vs Sinatra vs Play! Framework vs ActFramework vs NestJS vs GraphQL vs hug vs Express vs Falcon vs Dropwizard vs AutoRest vs Grails vs NSwag vs Flask Web Development vs Play vs CakePHP vs Ocelot vs DreamFactory vs Fusio vs Grape vs API Platform vs PHP vs SlashDB vs Road Map iOS vs Creary.net vs Why hire and manage an executive assistant, when you can hire a managed team?

Specs

Written in

JavaScript

Platforms

Cross-platform

License

MIT

Repository

https://github.com/expressjs/express

Initial release

November 16, 2010

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

1.21.0

Developer

Google with Ken Thompson, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Java

Platforms

Cross-platform

License

-

Repository

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Python

Platforms

Cross-platform

License

MIT

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

SqlAlchemy

Initial Release

2019

WEB SERVER

Starlette, based on ASGI (uvicorn)

Type

standard and feature rich micro-framework

TYPE DECLARATION

you can use python type hints (optional)

WEBSITE

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

PHP

Platforms

-

License

MIT License

Repository

https://github.com/laravel/laravel

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Query Builder

Initial Release

June 2011

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

Blade

PHP version

7.2.0

Micro-framework

https://lumen.laravel.com/

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Python

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Django ORM

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

Django

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

Excellent

SECURITY

Excellent

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Python

Platforms

-

License

BSD License

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Elixir

Platforms

Linux, Windows

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

C#

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Entity Framework

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

Kestrel

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

Yes

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

7.1.3

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

Ruby

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

ActiveRecord

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

ERB

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

RSpec & Cucumber

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

PHP

Platforms

-

License

GPL 2

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

JavaScript

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Yii Active Record

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

Twig

PHP version

5.4+

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

PHP

Platforms

-

License

MIT License

Repository

https://github.com/symfony/symfony

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Doctrine

Initial Release

2005

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

Twig

PHP version

8.0.12

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

TypeScript

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

FREE

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

Javascript

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

Default ORM included out of the box

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

CakePHP Template

PHP version

5.4.16+

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Windows, Mac, Web

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

PHP

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

PHP

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

8.0

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

Open Source (free)

Technology

-

Languages

-

Hosting options

-

GUI

-

Written in

-

Platforms

Linux, Docker, AWS, Azure

License

Commercial/Free

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

-

Languages

Python

Hosting options

Self hosted, AWS, Azure, Docker, Vagrant

GUI

Yes

Written in

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Repository

-

Initial release

-

Current stable version

-

Developer

-

Default ORM

-

Initial Release

-

WEB SERVER

-

Type

-

TYPE DECLARATION

-

WEBSITE

-

Default Template Engine

-

PHP version

-

Micro-framework

-

Multi Language Support

-

SECURITY

-

Visual GUI Builder

-

Default Test Engine

-

Language

-

Price

-

Technology

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Pros + Cons

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 Can make use of a great number of plugins

Express takes advantage of Node's NPM to distribute and install countless plugins made by third parties which solve almost anything a developer would want to do with Express.
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 Easy to learn for people who have a little experience in backend dev

The fact that it's a JavaScript framework means that it's easy to learn for people who have even a minimal background in backend dev but they have experience in developing for the frontend, since JavaScript is a language most frontend developers are very familiar with.
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 Massive ecosystem of Middleware

If you have not already checked out the Express.js ecosystem of middleware, you should.
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 you need to learn new trending things every day

ES6 ? maybe ES7?did you hear flow? Reason? Elm? TypeScript? mongoose? sequelize? maybe typeORM? a Hot new ORM comes : Knex . only few month later :RxDb chai? okey i'm go with mocha. but Jest is hot right now good luck re-learning every day
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 Great routing API

Express' extremely powerful routing API allows developers to do tasks ranging from building a REST API to building the routes for a simple web app and then take it to the next level by using route parameters and query strings.
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 Lightweight

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 Good documentation

Express.js is really well documented. Everything is covered and they are very helpful for beginners and advanced developers alike.
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 Setting up is very easy

Setting up a new Express project is very easy. It consists of installing a handful of libraries through NPM run a single npm install and everything is ready to go.
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 Great for beginner Node.js programmers

With a little learning curve, it is a good choice for new NodeJS developers to get started quickly. Express boasts great, thorough documentation.
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 Great supportive community

Express has a big community with a lot of guides and tutorials written about it by developers that have been using it for quite some time.
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 Express.js is in the Node.js Foundation Incubator Program

Node.js Foundation Announcement here The Node.js Foundation is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems.
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 Has detailed information

Very simple and fast.
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 No single recommended way of doing something

Express considers itself to be a "minimalistic unopinionated framework", it basically lets the developer determine how their project will be organized. On one hand, this gives anyone terrific power and flexibility to use any library they want for a certain task and to organize their project structure however they want. But on the other hand, there's no single recommended way of organizing things, which can be a trap for beginners and experienced developers alike and result in unmaintainable projects.
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 Messed up JavaScript ecosystem

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 Not great for data science

If you wanted to connect to Python Data Science files, there isn't really a good way to connect JS and Python, whereas, with a python framework like Flask or Django, you can easily just connect the files since everything is in Python.
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 Not good as its hypes

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 Has the largest userbase

It's by far the most popular framework for node.
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 NPM hurts more than it helps

Because anyone and their brother, sister, best friend, oldest friend, mother, father, and dog have an idea they would like to publish as a Node.JS plugin to the world -- and they want to use all of their best friends plugins you have a dependency chain with more links than there are stars in the sky each time you choose to add a simple NPM module/plugin. Be wary, my friends.
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 Hard to control big projects

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 Support for a lot of plugins

Express takes advantage of Node's NPM to distribute and install countless plugins made by third parties which solve almost anything a developer would want to do with Express.
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 Relatively mature

Being a somewhat old Node.js web app framework and being one of the most widely used frameworks, Express.js has matured quite a lot during all that time. It's more stable than its competitors and a huge community backing it.
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 Good Oauth/Facebook integration with connect module

You can easily add oAuth integration/social logins to your next web app without much hassle, using this authentication middleware for connect.
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 Doesn't support HTTP2

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 Working with relational databases can be a hassle

Not only express, but every Node framework has this problem. While there exist plugins and libraries that allow developers to use relational databases in their web applications, they are not very good and usually it's a hassle and more trouble than it's worth to use a relational database with Node and express.
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 Massive ecosystem of middleware

If you have not already checked out the Express.js ecosystem of middleware, you should.
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 Performance is on the order of C and Java

Go is blazing fast, but easier to write than Python, JS, Ruby, or many other dynamic languages.
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 The go compiler compiles binaries instantly — as fast as a scripting language interpreter

Compiled binaries are fast — about as fast in C in most cases. Compiles on every OS without effort — truly cross-platform compiler. As a result of the fast compilation speed, you can use the gorun program to use go source code as if it was a scripting language.
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 Exceptionally simple and scalable multithreaded and concurrent programming

Goroutines are "lightweight threads" that runs on OS threads. They provide a simple way for concurrent operations — prepending a function with go will execute it concurrently. It utilizes channels for communication between goroutines which aids to prevent races and makes synchronizing execution effortless across goroutines. The maximum number of OS threads goroutines can run on may be defined at compile time with the GOMAXPROCS variable.
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 Great language for building networking services

Go was started as a systems language but now it has fully committed in the niche of networking services. This has been a brilliant move by Go because it allows them to capitalize on the immense talent of the Go engineering team (who are in the most part network engineers). In a world dominated by Java EE and slow scripting language, Go was a breath of fresh air and it continues to be one of the most powerful languages if you want to build networking services.
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 Supports functional programming techniques such as function literals

This naturally also supports first class and high order functions, so you may pass functions as variables to other functions.
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 Multiple variables may be assigned on a single line

This conveniently eliminates the need to create temporary variables. Fibonacci example: x, y = y, x+y
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 Supports splitting source code into multiple files

As long as every source code file in a directory has the same package name, the compiler will automatically concatenate all of the files together during the compilation process.
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 Supports 'modules' in the form of packages

Every Go source file contains a package line that indicates which package a file belongs to. If the name of the package is 'main', it indicates that this is a program that will be compiled into a binary. Otherwise, it will recognize that it is a package.
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 Simplified C-like syntax that is as easy to read and write as Python

The language is designed in a manner that seems logical. Syntax is simplified to reduce burden on the programmer and compiler developers.
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 Demonstrates a unique, simple concept to object-oriented programming

All types are essentially objects, be they type aliases or structs. The compiler automatically associates types to their methods at compile time. Those methods are automatically associated to all interfaces that match. This allows you to gain the benefits of multiple inheritance without glue code. As a result of the design, classes are rendered obsolete and the resulting style is easy to comprehend.
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 Built-in unit testing

The idiomatic approach to writing a Go software project is to perform test-driven development with unit testing. Every source code file should have an associated *_test.go file which tests functions in the code.
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 API documentation is rich in content; easy to memorize

Only features deemed critical are added to the language to prevent cruft from working its way into the language. The language is small enough to fit inside one's head without having to repeatedly open documentation. Documentation is hosted on an official webpage in a manner that is simple to read and understand.
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 Programmers don't have to argue over what 10% subet of the language to implement in their software project

The language promotes programming in a specific idiomatic style, which helps keep every programmer on the same page.
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 Easy to install and configure; simple to compile software

Go software can be immediately installed, regardless of your operating system, package manager, or processor architecture with the go get command. Software is compiled statically by default so there is no need to worry about software dependencies on the client system. Makefiles and headers are no longer necessary, as the package system automatically resolves dependencies, downloads source code and compiles via a single command: go build.
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 Syntax for exported code from a package is simplified to be less verbose than other languages

Any variable, type and function whose name begins with a capital letter will be exported by a project, while all other code remains private. There is no longer a need to signify that a piece of code is 'private' or 'public' manually.
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 Great team working behind it

Go has a solid team of engineers working on it (some of the best networking engineers in the world are working on Go). Up until now, the great engineering of the language has compensated for its lack of power.
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 Expect to write SQL if working with a rdbms

ORMs aren't really mature and reliable in the Go world
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 Automatically generates API documentation for installed packages

Godoc is provided to automatically generate API documentation for Go projects. Godoc also hosts its own self-contained web server that will list documentation for all installed packages in your Go path.
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 Provides tools for automatically formatting code for your entire software project

This helps keep every programmer on the same page in a project and eliminates arguments over formatting styles.
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 Designed to make the programmer expendable

Go was designed for large team projects where many contributors may be incompetent. That Go can still get things done under these conditions is a testament to its utility in this niche. Go's infamously weak abstraction power is thus a feature, not a bug, meant to prevent your teammates from doing too much damage. This also means any team member can be easily replaced by another code monkey at minimum cost. Good for the company, bad for you. The more talented programmers, on the other hand, will be very frustrated by having one hand tied behind their back.
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 Hard to abstract even the simplest notions

Go is famously regarded as very simple. However, this simplicity becomes problematic in time. Programmers who use Go find themselves over and over again writing the same thing from a very low point of view. Domains not already served by libraries that are easy to glue are very difficult to get into.
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 Easy to shadow variable

Due to single character only difference, declare and assign statement can easily shadow variable from outer scope unconsciously. Example: err := nil if xxx { err := somefunctionthatreturnsanerr } return err // always return nil
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 Performance slowdown because of indirect calls and garbage collection

Practically no meaningful Go application can be written without indirect function calls and garbage collection, these are central to Go's core infrastructure. But these are major impediments to achieving good performance.
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 Implementation of interfaces are difficult to figure out

Finding out what interfaces are implemented by a struct requires a magic crystal ball. They are easy to write, but difficult to read and trawl through.
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 No forms designer

Those who are used to Visual Studio may feel the lack of a forms designer for rapid development.
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 Inherits all of Spring's strengths

Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
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 Community & Learning resources

One of the the biggests communities you can found and a lot of resources to learn using Spring Framework
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 A really big framework

Spring is a really big framework and do more that the common developer want to build applications. The result ? Application size can grow up fast ...
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 Preconfigured starters

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 Fast prototyping

Spring boot is built for fast prototyping.
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 Lacking in UI development

While actually very good and with a very complete and rich feature set to develop and maintain code on the server side, it still doesn't provide any rich framework for building good user interfaces.
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 Kick down to Spring

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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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 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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 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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 Good for building RESTful APIs

With migrations, powerful and intuitive Eloquent CRUD, resource routing, and simple JSON response out of the box, a complete REST API can be written in hours.
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 Good documentation

Laravel's documentation is thorough and very good. It covers everything and is very helpful to experienced and new users alike.
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 Easy to write web apps with authentication

Laravel comes with Authentication capabilities and a fully-powered Auth class out of the box. For passwords it uses bcrypt.
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 Handles event queuing

Laravel supports event queuing and it does so in a very simple way. To create an event that should be queued just run: php artisan handler:event SendPurchaseConfirmation --event=PodcastWasPurchased --queued This creates a handler that implements the Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldBeQueued interface. Now when this handler is called it will automatically be queued by the event dispatcher.
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 Easy to learn

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 Comes with an excellent built-in ORM

Laravel's Eloquent ORM is a simple and fast Object-Relational Mapping which helps with organizing the application's database. It supports the most popular databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, etc.) out of the box.
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 Great Ecosystem

For handling JWT Tokens, Authorization, Queues, Cloud based Filesystem
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 Can use Symfony components

Laravel uses many libraries built for the Symfony PHP framework. Many of these libraries are well-built and have been tested by users before. Since the point of using a web framework is to shorten development time and to avoid reinventing the wheel for problems that have already been solved, then it's logical for a framework to use libraries already built to solve problems that have already been solved.
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 Great Community

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 Comes with its own CLI

Laravel comes out of the box with it's own CLI called Artisan. With Artisan developers can do several different tasks such as migrating databases, seeding databases, clearing the cache and much much more.
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 Gives developers a great degree of freedom in how they set up their project structure

Laravel allows for free configuration and does not force developers to use a single project structure, instead they can change it to how they wish.
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 Extremely powerful template system

Laravel has a powerful template system called Blade. It's quite similar to Twig or Moustache with lots of curly braces but the real power comes from the usage of PHP code directly in the view. Blade templates compile directly to raw PHP and are processed in the server when a request is made.
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 Steep learning curve

While a lot of times you can write things in plain PHP, it will hinder you down the line when you want to use core features and find that you have to rewrite code which then causes issues throughout the app. Documentation is good, but you need to know what you are looking for and practical examples are non-existent. Many features have been updated throughout the versions in such a short time that tutorials you find online are confusing to sort through outdated tutorials and guides that no longer work or have been depreciated.
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 Very slow

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 Bloated

While the speed doesn't seem to be an issue with it (on local tests), in production it may be hindered. The framework creates a ton of files and folders, some of which your app might not even use. Not good if you don't like having a ton of folders and rigid non-standard PHP folder structure for development.
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 Gulp tasks in the form of Laravel Elixir

In Laravel 5.0 they added Laravel Elixir, which provides an API for using Gulp tasks for Laravel applications. Elixir supports several CSS preprocessors and even some test tools. But it's still in the early stages of development and it will be developed even further in the following releases, with more methods and more Gulp tasks supported.
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 Slow Bootstrap

Laravel has two primary configuration files for it's bootstrapping: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/app/Http/Kernel.php https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/config/app.php The Kernel defines some global middleware that execute on every request, while app.php registers several service providers which go through two booting phases: Registration, which is the first to happen Boot, which is executed after all the other service providers are registered. Another reason why Laravel's bootstrapping is slow is because Laravel sits on top of Symfony's HTTPFoundation, which is relatively heavyweight.
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 Uses too much magic methods

It complicates debugging and autocompletion.
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 Hard to use model properties

You need to check all model properties in database to know it exists, or declare all them manually.
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 Follows bad design practices

Uses bad practices, like Singletons, Magic models, Middleware.
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 only reason to learn php

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 Not really suited for enterprise development

Laravel is great for putting a blog together quickly, but it does not really pack all the features for a full enterprise grade website.
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 Clear and defined MVC organization 

Django follows some pretty well established MVC patterns. With everything in place and where requests follow a clear path through urlresolvers, middleware, view and context processors.
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 ORM support out of the box

Django supports Object-Relational Mapping. With models defined as Python classes which are actually subclasses of Django's django.db.models.Model. Each attribute of the model is then represented as a database field. Queries are lazily executed and Django gives developers an automatically-generated database-access API.
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 Has an admin panel out of the box

Django comes with a highly customizable admin panel and authentication out of the box. This makes the development and production of a simple CMS extremely easy.
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 Mature software with many plugins developed over the years 

Django was first released in 2005, it has had a lot of time to mature and become better with each release. It also has by far the largest community out of all python frameworks who have continuously over the years built and maintained many powerful plugins.
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 Simple database management

Just a few lines of code can instruct Django to create all the tables and fields required in your database automatically. Schemas are managed with "migrations", that are also created automatically, and can be rolled out from your development box and implemented on production systems with just a single command. This performs any database changes required, from table creation, indexes, renaming fields, and pre-populating initial data. Each migration builds on the previous migrations, so you can trace the evolution of your data and even recreate the layout of your database at any point in the lifecycle of your application.
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 ASGI

Now supports ASGI.
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 Can feel bloated for small projects

Django's sheer scale and functionality can feel clunky and bloated for small applications. It has too many bells and whistles which can get in the way when developing a small scale application.
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 Top notch documentation and help from community 

The official Django documentation is probably some of the best around. Well written, thorough and they explain every little detail of the framework. Django is also a very popular tool, with an extensive community and a lot of experienced developers that have been using it for years. This means that there are a lot of guides and tutorials out there for new and experienced developers alike.
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 Developing a simple prototype can be very fast 

Django's philosophy of batteries included means that experienced developers won't have to plan too much ahead on what kind of application infrastructure they need and instead just start developing web applications quickly.
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 Highly customizable 

Django is in itself a highly customizable web framework. The database, template framework and ORM can all be swapped out.
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 Lacks on Micro-service Architecture

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 The documentation does not cover real-world scenarios

It is a larger documentation indeed, however is not deep and covers non real problems or even don't show any examples. You'll be better with Google or Stackoverflow
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 Takes a lot of time to learn for beginners

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 Routing requires some knowledge of regular expressions

Given a GET request for /topics/426/viewpoints/1/sections/create, how does Django decide which bit of Python code is invoked to handle it? It compares the request path to your giant pile of regular expressions. And then if there's some other regular expression starts matching /top and all your requests for /topics/ start going there, good luck figuring out why. You won't be informed of any conflict until you notice you seem to be getting the wrong pages back. The structure of URL paths is almost universally hierarchal. There is no call to have anything as ridiculously flexible (and notoriously hard-to-read) as regular expressions to organize request routing.
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 Template errors fail silently by default 

If you make a typo in a template variable, or change a view so that variable is no longer passed to the template, you won't get an error message pointing out that something has gone wrong. That reference will just be treated as if it is an empty string instead. There is a way to configure this, but since so many templates have been written assuming this behavior, nobody ever enables template errors because it would break so much of the existing support tools (e.g. the built-in admin interface).
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 Not good for I/O intensive Tasks

FastApi or Tornado may be better in that regard.
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 Can't use ASGI natively

After adding ASGI support from ver 3.0, ASGI server wraps around WSGI ones.
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 Very flexible

The choice of not having an ORM, but instead choosing one suited to the task, gives developers who use Flask a great deal of flexibility. Another area where Flask gives a lot of options to developers is the templating. They can use Jinja2, Flask's default templating language or choose from a number of different templating languages they desire.
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 Minimalist without losing power

Flask is very easy to get up and going, with vanilla HTML or with bootstrap pieces. It doesn't take much lines of python to load Flask to get headers working, etc, and since it's all modular you don't have to have something you don't want in your application. Each module within Flask works very well, and is extremely good on bandwidth and CPU usage.
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 Not async-friendly

Flask is explicitly not designed to handle async programming.
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 Extremely easy to build a quick prototype

Even though it's pretty minimalistic out of the box, Flask still provides the necessary tools to build a quick prototype for a web app right after a fresh install. With all the main components pretty much packed in the flask package, building a simple web app in a single Python file is as easy as it gets.
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 Clear

It's a very clear API, easy to use and deploy, you can use it with gunicorn easily.
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 Slow on adding new features

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 Aged syntax

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 Too dependent on third-party packages

It wastes time to search and find which library is better and safe.
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 HTML-oriented, not API-oriented

Not necessarily designed for making APIs, though that is possible
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 Setting up a large project requires some previous knowledge of the framework

Setting up a large project with Flask is not that easy considering how there's no "official" way of doing it. Blueprints are a useful tool in this regard but require some additional reading and are a bit tricky to get right for a beginner. The lack of some defaults can also be problematic. Having to choose between different libraries for a certain task is never easy, especially if you have never worked with Flask before.
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 Able to use ORM or "true SQL"

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 Lots of resources available online

Flask is one of the most popular Python web frameworks, if not the most popular one. As such, there's plenty of guides, tutorials, and libraries available for it. A large number of important Python libraries, such as SQLAlchemy have libraries for Flask, which add valuable bindings to make the development process and the integration between these libraries and Flask as easy as possible.
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 Not efficient for I/O Bound Task

While it is faster than django, it lacks on Async Tasks. FastApi or aiohttp work better.
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 Great documentation

The official documentation is very thorough and complete. Everything is explained in-depth and followed by extremely well-explained tutorials that tackle real-world problems.
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 Threadlocals and globals used everywhere

The default way of creating applications in flask makes it hard to use reusable and clean code.
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 Will be easy to learn for Rails developers

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 Easy to learn

The official guides are really well written.
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 Relatively big community

It has the biggest community from all Elixir web frameworks so there are examples and tutorials all over the place and you can quickly find help.
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 Deployment to production can be tricky

More complicated than some other frameworks and often the deployment details listed in the documentation fail to work as described. Hot reload functionality can be pain to setup.
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 Simple and clean

Very little clutter and once you get used to it the conceptual underpinning is elegant and highly intutive.
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 Third party libraries can be limited

Community is not yet fully mature meaning some fairly basic libraries are either not ready or require significant effort to get up and running. This can be mitigated by using JavaScript libraries in some cases, you often lose benefits of the Elixir base when doing this.
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 Per page JavaScript and CSS loading requires custom code

By default all JavaScript and CSS is compiled into one file which is loaded on every single page, which is not good for larger projects. No simple way to fix this without writing custom handling code.
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 Connection handling speed isn't everything

While the erlang base -- the fact it's based on a derivation of a language written for a telecommunications network -- allows it to handle connections well, this isn't everything. As there are not yet any large-scale apps using Phoenix it is unclear how things like database management will fare at enterprise level. Not necessarily a criticism, but one to watch. Though Dischord either does or did previous use Elixir for at least part of its codebase.
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 Very quick web server

Absolutely trounces the competition on pageload time with default settings, even from behind an nginx reverse proxy.
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 Community not defined

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 Complete full stack solution

Doesn’t require additional installations for full stack development. Works out of the box.
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 Very good at parallel processing

Because it's based on Erlang VMs, processes scale exceptionally well on multi-core, multi-threaded CPUs.
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 Handles up to 2 million user connections per server

While this is in a test scenario with a powerful server, this demonstrates Phoenix's unparallelled ability to scale potentially massively reducing hardware costs.
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 too much functional

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 Very positive reviews

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 Poor documentation

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 Fast and getting faster

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 Multi-platform

Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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 Great developer experience

Tooling is excellent. All can be done within Visual Studio; coding, testing, debugging, version control, deployment, etc.
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 Built-in middleware

Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.
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 Hosting

Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process. Also in the cloud with Azure.
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 Managed dependency injection

Register your service layers at startup and automatically receive them in your constructor.
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 Ease of use

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 Tooling

Both VS and VSCode are powerful free IDEs that are well integrated with ASP.net Core. VS Community also allows for commercial use for projects with less than 5 developers.
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 Security

It is a very secure platform.
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 JSON optimization

In .NET Core 2.1 and 3.0, new APIs are added that make it possible to write JSON APIs that require less memory, using Span<T> and UTF8 strings, and improve throughput of applications like Kestrel, ASP.NET Core web server. See also Utf8JsonReader.
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 Built in Dependency Injection

Where in the old ASP.NET we had to rely on 3rd-party solutions, Dependency Injection is now built in. Read Implementing an Effective Architecture for ASP.NET Core Web API.
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 Multi platform

Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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 Tutorials and documentation quality

Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.
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 Encapsulated Microsoft environment

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 Unnecessarily complex

Performing basic implementations requires excessive boilerplate code. Some key stacks are poorly implemented (System.Text.Json) and do not offer enough features.
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 Open Source

It is open source solution.
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 No encapsulated environment

In .net framework 3.1, you can deploy the app in any platform whitout having to install the framework itself (self-contained app).
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 Being fast isn't enough when it's hard to develop on it

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 NSwag

NSwag can be used to automatically generate code.
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 Multi Platform

Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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 Microsoft Environment

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 Easy to use

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 Highest performing PHP micro-Framework

Lumen is benchmarked at 100/rps (Requests Per Second) faster than Slim v3, which used to be considered the fastest and most performant micro-Framework to date with the ability to handle 1800/rps. (1900/rps vs 1800/rps respectively).
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 Feature rich

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 Easily upgradable to Laravel

Since it's basically just a minimal version of Laravel, it can be upgraded to a full Laravel app if the need arises. No need for code changes, just import the code to a new Laravel install.
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 It's based off Laravel and inherits its shortcomings

Lumen inherits many shortcomings of Laravel, such as static proxy classes.
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 Lacks in documentation compared to Laravel

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 Built for smaller tasks like APIs

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 Made to work alongside Laravel

Lumen as a framework is at it's full potential when used alongside it's older brother. Lumen was created to be used for microservices alongside Laravel, which is used for more user-facing applications. If a project is already using another framework other than Laravel, it would be better to use another microframework for microservices instead of Lumen.
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 poor community

poor community
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 Very good for automated testing

Build around TDD and BDD, Rails impliments test driven design in a way that is fully integrated with the framework. Excellent testing libraries, such as RSpec.
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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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 Meta-programming capabilities

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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 Popularity decreasing

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 Not a very popular language outside of web development

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 Cool language

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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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 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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 Too much convention

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 Somewhat outdated

Slow and clunky compared to more modern frameworks. Likely to quietly disappear and be replaced by alternatives already emerging that offer all the advantages with few of the drawbacks.
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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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 Powerful and easy-to-use

Slim is very easy to learn. You can use Eloquent ORM or try others. Most importantly, you can use only the libraries that you need. Ideal for making a REST API.
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 Flexible

Slim doesn't demand that you stick to a fixed folder structure. As long as you load Slim the right way you can do anything from there the way you like it.
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 Extremely customizable

You can add any dependency, package or class that you want to use as a contained dependency.
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 A good starting point

Slim is minimal and that is a good thing if you want to start from there. It can be easily extended and even supports popular packages that are used in Laravel (like Illuminate\Database (eloquent)) for example.
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 Open source

The Slim Framework is open source and is released under the MIT public license
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 Extremely lightweight

Paired with swoole it's a micro service powerhouse.
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 Too minimal

While it's true that Slim is a microframework, it's still too minimal. When used for throwaway projects or simple prototypes, it's perfect. But in the long run, it becomes less and less useful and you end up in implementing a fully custom framework in trying to tackle all the missing features. So in the end, if the project would go further than a prototyping stage it would be easier to just implement another microframework that has those missing features out of the box.
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 Very little consistency among different versions

There have been quite some changes that break the compatibility between Slim 2 and Slim 3. Even if you learned how to work with the Slim 2, you will find that Slim 3 requires re-training.
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 Dependency injection is too weak

It is not really dependency injection, but just a configurable container.
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 Needs strong bases to create dependencies

The dependency container schema of Slim is one of the biggest PROS and CONS of the framework. It is true that this schema brings so much flexibility to add anything, but another thing that is true is that you need to have strong bases of patterns, and an extensive knowledge of your libraries to convert it into a Slim dependency.
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 tools are scarce

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 REST based

REST fans will love the REST based architecture.
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 Supports tie-ins for Rack-like middleware

Rack is an interface used in Ruby frameworks used to group and order modules, which most of the time are Ruby classes, and specify between them. Slim uses a simple concept for it's middleware. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses it unifies the middleware into a single method call.
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 Useful classes

Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
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 Well organized and thorough documentation

Slim's documentation is well organized and detailed, every concept is thoroughly explained and it is very helpful for both advanced users and beginners.
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 Easy to get a project up and running

Easily and quickly get going.
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 Based on Laravel PHP Framework

If you are already programming in PHP with Laravel, you will have no trouble starting development with Node using Adonis.
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 Option for full-stack or api standalone implementation

You can choose to use the full-stack version or if you wish to build a RESTful API you can choose to use the api standalone version.
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 Has websocket support out of the box

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 Option for full-stack or API standalone implementation

You can choose to use the full-stack version or if you wish to build a RESTful API you can choose to use the api standalone version.
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 Easy to learn, especially if you're already familiar with Laravel

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 Very good documentation

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 Built-in modules for everything

There are built-in modules for everything: Auth, Social Auth, mailing, etc.
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 Similar to Rails

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 No NOSQL integration

Only used ORM, not ODM.
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 Highly extensible without effort

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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 License

Yii is free and open source and is distributed under the BSD License.
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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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 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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 Open source

Symfony is open source and released under the MIT license.
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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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 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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 Not really built for providing just an API backend

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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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 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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 Very hard to install

Setting it up on webhost without a console is difficult.
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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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 Hard to scale well

Because it's rather small and minimalistic, scaling up is not very easy with Sinatra. You need a great deal of knowledge on libraries and modules that may be useful for your particular use-case. As your application grows larger it may be hard to keep things clean and minimalistic, losing a lot of the advantages that Sinatra has.
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 Nice DSL

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 Has only the bare minimum needed

Sinatra has taken an approach of having only the most useful components needed to build applications out of the box. It has simple routes along with a Domain Specific Language over a Rack layer.
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 Small loading time

Since it has very few dependencies, the loading time for a Sinatra app is considerably small.
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 Readable code

Play framework's convention over configuration methodology makes most Play projects have a very similar structure. This means that the code written for the framework is very readable. This enables a developer to switch between applications without having to relearn the ecosystem for every project. The built-in templating system also helps with code and makes it possible to have a very low count of lines of code.
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 Develop with scala and/or java

Since scala runs on the JVM, both languages may be used interchangeably. This gives opportunity to use the new functional/oo language Scala.
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 Verbose

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 Hard to Learn

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 Not as many resources to learn

Other languages and frameworks have countless tutorials, books, moocs, etc. Java and Play does not have nearly as much.
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 Backward incompatibility

The jump from Play 1 to Play 2.x caused a lot of confusion. While it is important to have some kind of evolution, sometimes it causes backward incompatibility which can create some problems. It makes tutorials or modules made for the old version obsolete. This can make it hard for beginners to find useful resources. The template engine which used Groovy now uses Scala.
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 Play is an extensive ecosystem

Play uses Akka for concurrency, Scala for a templating engine, Netty as a client-server framework and SBT (Simple Build Tool) for building. And they all come out of the box. Play also comes with the option to scaffold your applications. Play is an all-embracing ecosystem designed to increase developer productivity and shorten development times.
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 Good documentation and a great community

Play has quite a large community which provides numerous tutorials and videos related to developing with Play. The Play official documentation covers many things, such as the framework itself but also specific stuff such as Akka, SBT and Netty. There are also many big companies that base their main sites around Play, one of them is LinkedIn which provides third-party documentation on a regular basis.
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 Simple for beginners

Play is very simple to get started. The documentation is very helpful for beginners and advanced users alike and the official website has a great "Getting Started" tutorial to begin developing with Play.
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 Actively supported and developed by Typesafe

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 Use Akka to scale across multiple servers

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 Modern

Allows you to structure your code using modern concepts.
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 Allows access to express middlewares

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 Uses Typescript

There is a lot of cool stuff, like decorators, full-fledged object-oriented programming and static types.
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 Documentation

Easy to read and complete documentation.
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 Angular like architecture

Use same architecture than Angular (modules, services, injection, etc).
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 Usage of libraries in Node.js

Allows the usages of many different already-built libraries in several domain such as authentication, database etc.
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 Architecture

Solves the architecture problem in Node.js framework ecosystem.
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 Analytics on API use

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 Strongly typed schema

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 No more over- or under-fetching

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 Fast and lightweight

Backed by Falcon, which when given the Cython option, makes hug exceptionally fast.
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 Performance is really awesome

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 Lightweight with minimal dependencies

Falcon is a very lightweight framework. This can be noticed simply by looking at the dependency list: other than the python standard library, six and mimeparse are the only dependencies.
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 Built to build REST APIs

Falcon is designed entirely around building REST APIs. This helps a lot with it being lightweight and simple. It also helps developers take some design choices which would otherwise not be possible with a more general-purpose framework.
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 Limited in scope

Being designed around building REST APIs and the fact that it's minimalistic with very few dependencies makes Falcon opinionated (you should build a REST API) and limited in scope (you shouldn't be using Falcon to build a news site, blog or ecommerce platform).
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 Not for creating REST API's, but consuming

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 Fairly complex

Grails is a pretty heavy piece of software. It's functionality is covered by GORM (Grails' Object Relational Mapping) which is a facade for hibernate and by Spring MVC. Everything is glued by core Spring and furthermore, Grails adds another level of abstraction on top of all this. These things may create some trouble down the road when debugging.
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 Great UI design alternatives

Do you need something advanced in the UI? You can either create it in GSP with an addon of CSS/JavaScript or you can find a plugin that will do the work for you. Plugins include integration with Bootstrap, jQuery, Yeoman and much more.
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 Highly scalable

Grails is an abstraction over Spring and Hibernate. This makes Grails applications fast and scalable. This is because both Spring and Hibernate are themselves scalable.
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 Easy to use

Grails is designed to be a rapid development framework with a straight learning curve. It advocates convention over configuration. Extensibility is very simple when using plugins (there is a lot of them). One command in the console – and all the dependencies and configurations are managed for you.
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 Very fast setup and scaffolding

Setting up a new project is quite fast and code generation (scaffolding) saves you a lot of time. It also uses a convention over configuration principle which helps you bypass all the configuration trouble. Grails also comes with a reloading mechanism out of the box.
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 More than 900 plugins

Grails is a full-stack web framework, not just MVC. It contains a lot of stuff out of the box, but it doesn’t enforce it. It contains over 900 plugins which provide a Groovy API for a lot of useful and well-known Java libraries. And what is more important is that they are super easy to install.
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 Great documentation and community

The Documentation section is actually a wiki, which can be modified by any logged in user. It has an official manual, tutorials, screencasts, a sample app and much more. If that does not do it for you, then there are countless third-party tutorials, more than 12k questions on SO and much more.
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 Fairly complex framework

Grails is a pretty heavy piece of software. It's functionality is covered by GORM (Grails' Object Relational Mapping) which is a facade for hybernate and by Spring MVC. Everything is glued by core Spring and furthermore, Grails adds another level of abstraction on top of all this. These things may create some trouble down the road when debugging.
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 NSwagStudio

Has a Windows GUI for generating code.
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 Open source

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 Load balancing

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 Service discovery

with Consul & Eureka.
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 Configuration/Administration REST API

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 Routing

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 API Gateway could be a bottleneck

An API Gateway can be a bottleneck if not scaled out properly.
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 Multi database

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 Self-documented API

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 Very little code to set up an api and still highly customizable

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 Based on Symfony Framework

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 Based on Symfony Framework

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 Availability on Docker and in cloud marketplaces

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 You need to have a database ready

SlashDB doesn't let you create new tables or even modify existing schema, so you need to do that part in the underlying database. But once the table is added it becomes part of the API.
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 Free until you are ready to launch; affordable after that

Another BIG + for SlashDB is that developer's version is fully functional without time limit. Prices for production start from $15/month in the cloud or $199 /month for on premises.
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 Multiple data formats: JSON, XML, CSV and HTML

It's the only API that speaks multiple data formats. Sometimes a simple CSV is preferred over JSON, and sometimes a formal XML is required.
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 p2p, no intermediaries, content distributions licenses, blockchain technology

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