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Alternatives to ExpressJS

Koa, React, Flask, Django, and Golang are the most popular alternatives and competitors to ExpressJS.
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What is ExpressJS and what are its top alternatives?

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
ExpressJS is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
ExpressJS is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to ExpressJS's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to ExpressJS

  • Koa
    Koa

    Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware. ...

  • React
    React

    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project. ...

  • Flask
    Flask

    Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind. ...

  • Django
    Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...

  • Golang
    Golang

    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. ...

  • NGINX
    NGINX

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...

  • Laravel
    Laravel

    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...

  • hapi
    hapi

    hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services. ...

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PROS OF KOA
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    Async/Await
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    JavaScript
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    Antonio Kobashikawa
    Web developer | Blogger | Freelancer at Rulo Kobashikawa · | 6 upvotes · 238.4K views

    We are using Node.js and ExpressJS to build a REST services that is middleware of a legacy system. MongoDB as database. Vue.js helps us to make rapid UI to test use cases. Frontend is build for mobile with Ionic . We like using JavaScript and ES6 .

    I think next step could be to use Koa but I am not sure.

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    Paul Whittemore
    Developer and Owner at Appurist Software · | 1 upvote · 210.7K views
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    Will base most server-side APIs on Fastify . Smaller, faster, easier. Faster than Koa; and twice as fast as ExpressJS.

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    React

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    PROS OF REACT
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      Components
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      Virtual dom
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      Performance
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      Simplicity
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      Composable
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      Data flow
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      Declarative
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      Isn't an mvc framework
    • 119
      Reactive updates
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      Explicit app state
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      JSX
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      Learn once, write everywhere
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      Easy to Use
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      Uni-directional data flow
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      Works great with Flux Architecture
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      Great perfomance
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      Javascript
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      Built by Facebook
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      TypeScript support
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      Server Side Rendering
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      Speed
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      Feels like the 90s
    • 5
      Excellent Documentation
    • 5
      Props
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      Functional
    • 5
      Easy as Lego
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      Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
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      Cross-platform
    • 5
      Easy to start
    • 5
      Hooks
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      Awesome
    • 5
      Scalable
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      Super easy
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      Allows creating single page applications
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      Server side views
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      Sdfsdfsdf
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      Start simple
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      Strong Community
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      Fancy third party tools
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      Scales super well
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      Has arrow functions
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      Beautiful and Neat Component Management
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      Just the View of MVC
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      Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
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      Fast evolving
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      SSR
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      Great migration pathway for older systems
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      Rich ecosystem
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      Simple
    • 3
      Has functional components
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      Every decision architecture wise makes sense
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      Very gentle learning curve
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      Split your UI into components with one true state
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      Recharts
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      Permissively-licensed
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      Fragments
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      Sharable
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      Image upload
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      HTML-like
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      React hooks
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      Datatables
    CONS OF REACT
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      Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
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      No predefined way to structure your app
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      Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
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      JSX
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      Not enterprise friendly
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      One-way binding only
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      State consistency with backend neglected
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      Bad Documentation
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      Error boundary is needed
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      Paradigms change too fast

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    Vaibhav Taunk
    Team Lead at Technovert · | 31 upvotes · 3.6M views

    I am starting to become a full-stack developer, by choosing and learning .NET Core for API Development, Angular CLI / React for UI Development, MongoDB for database, as it a NoSQL DB and Flutter / React Native for Mobile App Development. Using Postman, Markdown and Visual Studio Code for development.

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    Adebayo Akinlaja
    Engineering Manager at Andela · | 30 upvotes · 3.2M views

    I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

    A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

    In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

    If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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    Flask

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    PROS OF FLASK
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      Flexibilty
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      For it flexibility
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      Flexibilty and easy to use
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      Flask
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      User friendly
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      Secured
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      Unopinionated
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      Orm
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      Secure
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      Beautiful code
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      Easy to get started
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      Easy to develop and maintain applications
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      Not JS
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      Easy to use
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      Documentation
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      Python
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      Minimal
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      Lightweight
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      Easy to setup and get it going
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      Perfect for small to large projects with superb docs.
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      Easy to integrate
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      Speed
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      Get started quickly
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      Customizable
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      Simple to use
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      Powerful
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      Rapid development
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      Open source
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      Well designed
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      Productive
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      Awesome
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      Expressive
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      Love it
    CONS OF FLASK
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      Not JS
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      Context
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      Not fast
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      Don't has many module as in spring

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    James Man
    Software Engineer at Pinterest · | 45 upvotes · 2.7M views
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    One of our top priorities at Pinterest is fostering a safe and trustworthy experience for all Pinners. As Pinterest’s user base and ads business grow, the review volume has been increasing exponentially, and more content types require moderation support. To solve greater engineering and operational challenges at scale, we needed a highly-reliable and performant system to detect, report, evaluate, and act on abusive content and users and so we created Pinqueue.

    Pinqueue-3.0 serves as a generic platform for content moderation and human labeling. Under the hood, Pinqueue3.0 is a Flask + React app powered by Pinterest’s very own Gestalt UI framework. On the backend, Pinqueue3.0 heavily relies on PinLater, a Pinterest-built reliable asynchronous job execution system, to handle the requests for enqueueing and action-taking. Using PinLater has significantly strengthened Pinqueue3.0’s overall infra with its capability of processing a massive load of events with configurable retry policies.

    Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Pinterest to discover and do what they love, and our job is to protect them from abusive and harmful content. We’re committed to providing an inspirational yet safe experience to all Pinners. Solving trust & safety problems is a joint effort requiring expertise across multiple domains. Pinqueue3.0 not only plays a critical role in responsively taking down unsafe content, it also has become an enabler for future ML/automation initiatives by providing high-quality human labels. Going forward, we will continue to improve the review experience, measure review quality and collaborate with our machine learning teams to solve content moderation beyond manual reviews at an even larger scale.

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    Hey, so I developed a basic application with Python. But to use it, you need a python interpreter. I want to add a GUI to make it more appealing. What should I choose to develop a GUI? I have very basic skills in front end development (CSS, JavaScript). I am fluent in python. I'm looking for a tool that is easy to use and doesn't require too much code knowledge. I have recently tried out Flask, but it is kinda complicated. Should I stick with it, move to Django, or is there another nice framework to use?

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    Django

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      Rapid development
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      Open source
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      Great community
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      Easy to learn
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      Mvc
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      Beautiful code
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      Elegant
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      Free
    • 202
      Great packages
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      Great libraries
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      Restful
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      Comes with auth and crud admin panel
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      Powerful
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      Great documentation
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      Great for web
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      Python
    • 42
      Great orm
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      Great for api
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      All included
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      Fast
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      Web Apps
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      Easy setup
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      Clean
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      Used by top startups
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      Sexy
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      ORM
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      The Django community
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      Convention over configuration
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      Allows for very rapid development with great libraries
    • 11
      King of backend world
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      Great MVC and templating engine
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      Full stack
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      Batteries included
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      Its elegant and practical
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      Mvt
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      Fast prototyping
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      Very quick to get something up and running
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      Easy to develop end to end AI Models
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      Cross-Platform
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      Have not found anything that it can't do
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      Zero code burden to change databases
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      Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
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      Python community
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      Many libraries
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      Modular
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      Easy to use
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      Easy
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      Map
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      Easy to change database manager
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      Great peformance
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      Full-Text Search
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      Just the right level of abstraction
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      Scaffold
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      Great default admin panel
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      Fastapi
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      Scalable
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      Built in common security
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      Node js
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      Gigante ta
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      Rails
    CONS OF DJANGO
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      Underpowered templating
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      Autoreload restarts whole server
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      Underpowered ORM
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      URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method
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      Internal subcomponents coupling
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      Not nodejs
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      Configuration hell
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      Admin
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      Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel
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      Python
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      Not typed
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      Bloated admin panel included
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      Overwhelming folder structure
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      InEffective Multithreading
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      Not type safe

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    Dmitry Mukhin
    Engineer at Uploadcare · | 25 upvotes · 2.4M views

    Simple controls over complex technologies, as we put it, wouldn't be possible without neat UIs for our user areas including start page, dashboard, settings, and docs.

    Initially, there was Django. Back in 2011, considering our Python-centric approach, that was the best choice. Later, we realized we needed to iterate on our website more quickly. And this led us to detaching Django from our front end. That was when we decided to build an SPA.

    For building user interfaces, we're currently using React as it provided the fastest rendering back when we were building our toolkit. It’s worth mentioning Uploadcare is not a front-end-focused SPA: we aren’t running at high levels of complexity. If it were, we’d go with Ember.js.

    However, there's a chance we will shift to the faster Preact, with its motto of using as little code as possible, and because it makes more use of browser APIs. One of our future tasks for our front end is to configure our Webpack bundler to split up the code for different site sections. For styles, we use PostCSS along with its plugins such as cssnano which minifies all the code.

    All that allows us to provide a great user experience and quickly implement changes where they are needed with as little code as possible.

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    Hey, so I developed a basic application with Python. But to use it, you need a python interpreter. I want to add a GUI to make it more appealing. What should I choose to develop a GUI? I have very basic skills in front end development (CSS, JavaScript). I am fluent in python. I'm looking for a tool that is easy to use and doesn't require too much code knowledge. I have recently tried out Flask, but it is kinda complicated. Should I stick with it, move to Django, or is there another nice framework to use?

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    Golang

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      High-performance
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      Simple, minimal syntax
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      Fun to write
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      Easy concurrency support via goroutines
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      Fast compilation times
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      Goroutines
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      Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy
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      Simple compile build/run procedures
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      Backed by google
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      Great community
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      Garbage collection built-in
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      Built-in Testing
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      Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc
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      Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C
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      Awesome to Develop
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      Used for Docker
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      Flexible interface system
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      Deploy as executable
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      Great concurrency pattern
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      Open-source Integration
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      Easy to read
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      Fun to write and so many feature out of the box
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      Go is God
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      Easy to deploy
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      Powerful and simple
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      Its Simple and Heavy duty
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      Best language for concurrency
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      Concurrency
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      Rich standard library
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      Safe GOTOs
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      Clean code, high performance
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      Easy setup
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      High performance
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      Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance
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      Hassle free deployment
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      Single binary avoids library dependency issues
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      Gofmt
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      Cross compiling
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      Simple, powerful, and great performance
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      Used by Giants of the industry
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      Garbage Collection
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      Very sophisticated syntax
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      Excellent tooling
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      WYSIWYG
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      Keep it simple and stupid
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      Widely used
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      Kubernetes written on Go
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      No generics
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      Operator goto
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      Looks not fancy, but promoting pragmatic idioms
    CONS OF GOLANG
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      You waste time in plumbing code catching errors
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      Verbose
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      Packages and their path dependencies are braindead
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      Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly
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      Dependency management when working on multiple projects
    • 10
      Automatic garbage collection overheads
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      Uncommon syntax
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      Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)
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      Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)
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      Best programming language
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      A failed experiment to combine c and python

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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

    How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

    Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

    Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

    https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

    (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

    Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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    Nick Parsons
    Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 3.2M views

    Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

    We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

    We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

    Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

    #FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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    NGINX

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      Easy to configure
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      Open source
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      Load balancer
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      Free
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      Scalability
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      Web server
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      Simplicity
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      Easy setup
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      Content caching
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      Web Accelerator
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      Capability
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      Fast
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      High-latency
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      Predictability
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      Reverse Proxy
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      The best of them
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      Supports http/2
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      Great Community
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      Lots of Modules
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      Enterprise version
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      High perfomance proxy server
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      Reversy Proxy
    • 3
      Streaming media delivery
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      Streaming media
    • 3
      Embedded Lua scripting
    • 2
      GRPC-Web
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      Blash
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      Lightweight
    • 2
      Fast and easy to set up
    • 2
      Slim
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      saltstack
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      Virtual hosting
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      Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
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      Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior
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      Ingress controller
    CONS OF NGINX
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      Advanced features require subscription

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    Recently I have been working on an open source stack to help people consolidate their personal health data in a single database so that AI and analytics apps can be run against it to find personalized treatments. We chose to go with a #containerized approach leveraging Docker #containers with a local development environment setup with Docker Compose and nginx for container routing. For the production environment we chose to pull code from GitHub and build/push images using Jenkins and using Kubernetes to deploy to Amazon EC2.

    We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.

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    Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

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      Clean architecture
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      Growing community
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      Composer friendly
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      Open source
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      The only framework to consider for php
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      Mvc
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      Quickly develop
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      Dependency injection
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      Application architecture
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      Embraces good community packages
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      Write less, do more
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      Orm (eloquent)
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      Restful routing
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      Database migrations & seeds
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      Artisan scaffolding and migrations
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      Great documentation
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      Awesome
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      Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid
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      Build Apps faster, easier and better
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      Eloquent ORM
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      Promotes elegant coding
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      Modern PHP
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      JSON friendly
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      Most easy for me
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      Easy to learn, scalability
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      Beautiful
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      Blade Template
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      Test-Driven
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      Security
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      Based on SOLID
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      Clean Documentation
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      Easy to attach Middleware
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      Cool
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      Simple
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      Convention over Configuration
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      Easy Request Validatin
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      Simpler
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      Fast
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      Easy to use
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      Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM
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      Its just wow
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      Laravel + Cassandra = Killer Framework
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      Simplistic , easy and faster
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      Friendly API
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      Less dependencies
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      Super easy and powerful
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      Great customer support
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      Its beautiful to code in
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      Speed
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      Eloquent
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      Composer
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      Minimum system requirements
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      Laravel Mix
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      Easy
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      The only "cons" is wrong! No static method just Facades
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      Fast and Clarify framework
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      Active Record
    • 5
      Php7
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      Ease of use
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      Laragon
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      Laravel casher
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      Easy views handling and great ORM
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      Laravel Forge and Envoy
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      Cashier with Braintree and Stripe
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      Laravel Passport
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      Laravel Spark
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      Intuitive usage
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      Laravel Horizon and Telescope
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      Laravel Nova
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      Rapid development
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      Laravel Vite
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      Scout
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      Deployment
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      Succint sintax
    CONS OF LARAVEL
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      PHP
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      Too many dependency
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      Slower than the other two
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      A lot of static method calls for convenience
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      Too many include
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      Heavy
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