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Fat-Free vs Grails: What are the differences?

What is Fat-Free? PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust Web applications - fast. Fat-Free Framework makes it easy to build entire Web sites in a jiffy. With the same power and brevity as modern Javascript toolkits and libraries, F3 helps you write better-looking and more reliable PHP programs.

What is Grails? An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM. Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.

Fat-Free and Grails can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Fat-Free, while over 44 developers mention "Groovy" as the leading cause for choosing Grails.

Fat-Free and Grails are both open source tools. It seems that Grails with 2.48K GitHub stars and 945 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Fat-Free with 2.3K GitHub stars and 443 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Fat-Free

Pros of Grails

8
Open source
7
Fast
5
Design pattern flexibility
5
Neat and Clean
4
API
4
SQL AND NOSQL ORM
3
1 FILE
3
Simple
2
Quickly develop

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Groovy
40
Jvm
38
Rapid development
37
Gorm
30
Web framework
25
Open source
21
Plugins
17
Extensible
17
Easy
14
Dynamic
6
Clean architecture (Dependency Injection)
6
Gradle
5
Clear what everything does, lots of options
4
RAD
4
Agile
4
Great documentation
3
Android
3
Spring
2
Easy setup
1
Java web apps with steroid

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Cons of Fat-Free

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Frequent breaking changes
2
Undocumented features

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What is Fat-Free?

Fat-Free Framework makes it easy to build entire Web sites in a jiffy. With the same power and brevity as modern Javascript toolkits and libraries, F3 helps you write better-looking and more reliable PHP programs.

What is Grails?

Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.

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Jobs that mention Fat-Free and Grails as a desired skillset

Staff iOS Software Engineer, Performance Ad Formats

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Software Engineer, Backend

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Intelligence

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

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IT Project & Program Manager I

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Financial Analyst II, Technology Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA, US; , CA, US

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Software Quality Engineer in Test

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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What are some alternatives to Fat-Free and Grails?

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.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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