Laravel vs Symfony
- 1. Laravel vs Symfony Comparison of two super-frameworks Oleksandr Tymchenko, co-founder Beedevs.com
- 2. Agenda ● Reason to compare ● Laravel and Symfony Advantages ● Stat Numbers ● How to choose ● References
- 3. Why do we compare them?
- 4. They’re both quite similar and used for the same aim Moreover: ● Each Uses Symfony components (There are 11 components in Laravel *) ● Architecture is build on the same concept: Request --> Middleware (EventListener) --> Router --> Controller --> Response *Source: http://symfony.com/projects/laravel
- 5. They’re both quite similar and used for the same aim Laravel ● ORM: Eloquent ● Template Engine: Blade ● Lifecycle: Chain of Middleware Symfony ● ORM: Doctrine ● Template Engine: Twig ● Lifecycle: Events and Listeners chain
- 6. Advantages. Laravel ● Faster to learn and that can cover the majority of project requirements. Provides better learning materials. ● Fast growing and active community. ● Laravel is more suitable for creating applications quickly.
- 7. Advantages. Symfony ● Official certification, enterprise support with SensioLabs, has predictable release plans. ● Suitable for big/enterprise projects, due to biases in developers community (subjective), however Laravel could be easily used as well (Laravel in Enterprise: by Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way. http://www.laravelpodcast.com/episodes/c9a43eeb/episode-53-bigger-better)
- 8. Stats (on 18.08.2017) Resource Laravel Symfony Stackoverflow 68,303 questions tagged 51,719 questions tagged Github 34,000 stars 15,000 stars Upwork 552 mentions in jobs 91 mentions in jobs Rabota.ua (last 30 days) 44 mentions in vacancies 64 mentions in vacancies This meetup audience ( > 3+) years exp - ? ( < 3) years exp - ? Interested - ? ( > 3+) years exp - ? ( < 3) years exp - ? Interested - ?
- 10. Stats. Google Trends * - be aware that, this is a map with average requests for few years from the moment of Laravel first release in June 2011
- 11. So which is better?
- 12. Conclusions long-run quick to startup fun corporate Laravel / Symfony Symfony Laravel Symfony / Laravel
- 13. References ● https://laravel.com ● https://symfony.com/ ● Some comparison in code snippets: https://www.toptal.com/php/choosing-between-symfony-and-laravel-frameworks ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks