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Falcon vs Symfony: What are the differences?

What is Falcon? High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends. Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

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.

Falcon can be classified as a tool in the "Microframeworks (Backend)" category, while Symfony is grouped under "Frameworks (Full Stack)".

"Python" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Falcon, while over 154 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Symfony.

Falcon and Symfony are both open source tools. Symfony with 21.1K GitHub stars and 7.01K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Falcon with 6.8K GitHub stars and 707 GitHub forks.

Typeform, Docplanner, and Webedia are some of the popular companies that use Symfony, whereas Falcon is used by HENNGE, Fivestars, and Vokal. Symfony has a broader approval, being mentioned in 374 company stacks & 277 developers stacks; compared to Falcon, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Fabian Gonzalez

May 5, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 2.4M views

Needs advice

Golang

Node.js

and

Symfony

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 · May 6, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 215.6K views

Recommends

Node.js

BaseDash

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 Falcon

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Python
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FAST
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Minimal
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Open source
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REST oriented
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Well designed
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Powerful
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Really Light Weight
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Documentation
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Easy to develop and maintain applications
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Easy to get started
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Easy to deploy
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Its simple while not limited
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Faster
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Open source
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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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Decoupled framework components
10
Robust
10
Easy to Learn
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Good practices guideline
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Service container
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Bundle
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Powerful
7
Simple
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Flexible

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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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Bloated

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What is Falcon?

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

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 Falcon and Symfony?

Flask

Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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