CodeIgniter vs Spring Framework: What are the differences?
Developers describe CodeIgniter as "A Fully Baked PHP Framework". CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps. On the other hand, Spring Framework is detailed as "An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform". It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
CodeIgniter and Spring Framework can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
CodeIgniter and Spring Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CodeIgniter with 17.4K GitHub stars and 7.72K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, CodeIgniter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 261 company stacks & 105 developers stacks; compared to Spring Framework, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.