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Dancer vs Yii: What are the differences?
What is Dancer? Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl. Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl.
What is Yii? A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.
Dancer and Yii can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Dancer and Yii are both open source tools. It seems that Yii with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dancer with 446 GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.
This website was originally written in Yii as PHP was my main language back then. After learning Django, I realized just how quickly you could build a web app with less lines. So I migrated my website to Django in a week or two and managed to cut down the lines of code by half. Some of the lines saving came from the models, the views, and the expressiveness of Python. Django requires like config for the models and they provide many generic views that abstracts away common patterns.
Pros of Dancer
- Fast1
- Easy1
- Stable1
- Microframework1
Pros of Yii
- Open source42
- Code generator33
- Simple33
- Active record29
- Full featured26
- Documentation21
- High performance21
- Rapid development20
- Flexible16
- Mvc11
- Not bloated10
- Stable Release8
- Community8
- Amazing8
- View Helpers7
- Modular architecture6
- Long Term Support6
- Easy setup, easy develop5
- Easy1
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Cons of Dancer
Cons of Yii
- Unnatural love of arrays2
- Promotes spagetti code1
- Too Opinionated1
- Promotes bad practice1
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