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Escher vs Symfony

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Escher vs Symfony: What are the differences?

What is Escher? An Elm-like web framework for Julia. A web server for 2016. Escher's built-in web server allows you to create interactive UIs with very little code. It takes care of messaging between Julia and the browser under-the-hood. It can also hot-load code: you can see your UI evolve as you save your changes to it.

What is Symfony? A PHP full-stack web framework. Symfony is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP. Symfony can be used to develop all kind of websites, from your personal blog to high traffic ones like Dailymotion or Yahoo! Answers.

Escher and Symfony belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Escher and Symfony are both open source tools. It seems that Symfony with 21.1K GitHub stars and 7.01K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Escher with 312 GitHub stars and 63 GitHub forks.

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Fabian Gonzalez
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I'm about to begin working on an API, for which I plan to add GraphQL connectivity for processing data. The data processed will mainly be audio files being downloaded/uploaded with some user messaging & authentication.

I don't mind the difficulty in any service since I've used C++ (for data structures & algorithms at least) and would also say I am patient and can learn fairly quickly. My main concerns would be their performance, libraries/community, and job marketability.

Why I'm stuck between these three...

Symfony: I've programmed in PHP for back-end in a previous internship and may do so again in a few months.

Node.js: It's newer than PHP, and it's JavaScript where my front-end stack will be React and (likely) React Native.

Go: It's newer than PHP, I've heard of its good performance, and it would be nice to learn a new (growing) language.

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Max Musing
Founder & CEO at BaseDash · | 6 upvotes · 193.1K views
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Go with Node.js. There's something really satisfying about being able to use a single language across your entire tech stack. Especially once you integrate GraphQL, which is effectively JSON.

Your second best option is Go, but the ecosystem around Node.js is quite a bit stronger. This will play a big factor when you start building functionality like file management, messaging (especially in real-time), and authentication. The libraries and documentation are just stronger for Node.

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Pros of Escher
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      Php
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      Community
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      Dependency injection
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      Professional
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      Doctrine
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      Organized
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      Modular architecture
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      Smart programming
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      Solid
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      Documentation
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      LTS releases
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      Easy to Learn
    • 9
      Decoupled framework components
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      Robust
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      Service container
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      Bundle
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      Good practices guideline
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      Simple
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    Cons of Escher
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        Too many dependency
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        Lot of config files
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        YMAL
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        Feature creep
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      What is Escher?

      A web server for 2016. Escher's built-in web server allows you to create interactive UIs with very little code. It takes care of messaging between Julia and the browser under-the-hood. It can also hot-load code: you can see your UI evolve as you save your changes to it.

      What is Symfony?

      It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

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        What are some alternatives to Escher and Symfony?
        Node.js
        Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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