When comparing open qoob vs Lumen, the Slant community recommends Lumen for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” Lumen is ranked 17th while open qoob is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Lumen is:
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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Pros
Pro Open source
Open Qoob is completely free and open source. It's hosted on GitHub.
Pro 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.
Pro Simple and lightweight
Qoob is made to create simple REST APIs and not full-blown applications. Therefore it's quite lightweight.
Pro 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.
Pro Feature rich
Pro 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).
Pro Easy to use
Cons
Con 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.
Con Built for smaller tasks like APIs
Con It's based off Laravel and inherits its shortcomings
Lumen inherits many shortcomings of Laravel, such as static proxy classes.
Con 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.