When comparing Klein vs Route, the Slant community recommends Route for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP libraries for handling application routing?” Route is ranked 1st while Klein is ranked 4th.
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Pros
Pro More concurrent requests, more interactivity
The fact that a Klein server is event-driven and non-blocking means that it can start handling a new request while previous requests are still open. This lets you serve more requests from a single process, meaning running multiple servers is now an option to be explored when your site makes it big, rather than a necessity for responsiveness under even modest loads.
Multiple requests per process also gives you flexibility to do things that would be impractical in WSGI-based alternatives like Flask or Bottle, such as keeping a connection to the browser open to send it chat messages or game updates in a Server Sent Event stream.
Cons
Con Lacks database integration
Talking to database is a pretty common thing for a web application to do. Larger frameworks know this, and cover it in some detail by the end of the tutorial. In contrast, the Klein documentation is currently silent on this topic, leaving the issue of how to do database queries in a way that won't block your event-driven code entirely up to you.