Aura vs Zend Framework: What are the differences?

Aura: Modern tools for modern applications. The Aura project centers around a collection of high-quality, well-tested, semantically versioned, standards-compliant, independent library packages that can be used in any codebase; Zend Framework: An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

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

Aura and Zend Framework are both open source tools. Zend Framework with 5.71K GitHub stars and 2.87K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Aura with 2.99K GitHub stars and 269 GitHub forks.

Webedia, Scandlearn, and MV Labs are some of the popular companies that use Zend Framework, whereas Aura is used by Kivvik, Klubup, and RoundTable. Zend Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Aura, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.