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Caddy vs Ratchet PHP: What are the differences?

Caddy: The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS. Caddy is a production-ready open-source web server that is fast, easy to use, and makes you more productive. HTTP/2 and HTTPS by default; Ratchet PHP: A PHP library for asynchronously serving WebSockets. It is a loosely coupled PHP library providing developers with tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers over WebSockets.

Caddy and Ratchet PHP can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.

Some of the features offered by Caddy are:

  • Easy configuration with the Caddyfile
  • Automatic HTTPS on by default (via Let's Encrypt)
  • HTTP/2 by default

On the other hand, Ratchet PHP provides the following key features:

  • Fast & Easy
  • Components
  • Compatible

Caddy and Ratchet PHP are both open source tools. Caddy with 23.4K GitHub stars and 1.87K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ratchet PHP with 4.8K GitHub stars and 554 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Caddy
Pros of Ratchet PHP
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    Easy HTTP/2 Server Push
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    Sane config file syntax
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    Builtin HTTPS
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    Letsencrypt support
  • 2
    Runtime config API
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    Cons of Caddy
    Cons of Ratchet PHP
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      What is Caddy?

      Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.

      What is Ratchet PHP?

      It is a loosely coupled PHP library providing developers with tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers over WebSockets.

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