Zend Framework vs Redwood

Overview

Zend Framework

Stacks262

Followers215

Votes48

Redwood

Stacks28

Followers50

Votes6

Zend Framework vs Redwood: What are the differences?

Zend Framework: An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures; Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack. It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.

Zend Framework and Redwood can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Zend Framework are:

Pure object oriented web application framework
Advanced MVC implementation
Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc

On the other hand, Redwood provides the following key features:

Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and more
Simple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs)
Automatic page-based code-splitting

Zend Framework and Redwood are both open source tools. It seems that Zend Framework with 5.72K GitHub stars and 2.82K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Redwood with 2.69K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Zend Framework	Redwood
It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.	It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.
Pure object oriented web application framework; Advanced MVC implementation; Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc; Simple cloud API; Session management; Data encryption; Flexible URI Routing; Zend provides RESTful API development support.	Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and more; Simple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs); Automatic page-based code-splitting; Boilerplate-less GraphQL API construction; Cells: a declarative way to fetch data from the backend API; Generators for pages, layouts, cells, SDL, services, etc; Scaffold generator for CRUD operations around a specific DB table; Forms with easy client- and/or server-side validation and error handling; Hot module replacement (HMR) for faster development; Database migrations (via Prisma 2); First class JAMstack-style deployment to Netlify
Statistics
Stacks 262	Stacks 28
Followers 215	Followers 50
Votes 48	Votes 6
Pros & Cons
Pros 25 Open source 11 Community 4 Fast 3 Scalable 2 Friendly configuratin	Pros 2 Cells 2 React+Prisma+GraphQL 1 Easy setup + generators 1 Storybook integrated development
Integrations
Expressive PHP GitHub Webex	React AWS Lambda Netlify GraphQL

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