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Add to SafariWhen comparing Aura Framework vs Flight, the Slant community recommends Flight for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” Flight is ranked 16th while Aura Framework is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Flight is:
Since Flight uses static methods, it does not require for the application class to be instantiated.
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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Uses static methods
Since Flight uses static methods, it does not require for the application class to be instantiated.
Pro Open source
Flight is open source and is released under the MIT license.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con LICENSE
Con 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.
Con 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.
