Kohana vs Next.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe Kohana as "An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework". Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. On the other hand, Next.js is detailed as "*A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps *". Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
Kohana and Next.js can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Kohana over the competitors, whereas "Automatic server rendering and code splitting" was stated as the key factor in picking Next.js.
Kohana and Next.js are both open source tools. Next.js with 38.7K GitHub stars and 4.69K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kohana with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Next.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 82 company stacks & 69 developers stacks; compared to Kohana, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.