Fat-Free vs Volt: 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 Volt? A ruby web framework where your ruby runs on both server and client. Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

Fat-Free and Volt can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Fat-Free, while over 2 developers mention "Handlebars" as the leading cause for choosing Volt.

Fat-Free and Volt are both open source tools. It seems that Volt with 3.3K GitHub stars and 209 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Fat-Free with 2.3K GitHub stars and 443 GitHub forks.