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FullStack Boilerplate vs Symfony: What are the differences?

FullStack Boilerplate: React Native Web with TypeScript, Node.js & GraphQL. The client was built using react-native-web really easy to turn into a mobile app. The server is written in Node.js.and uses GraphQL with apollo-server for delivering data between client and server and typegoose for interacting with Mongo; 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.

FullStack Boilerplate and Symfony can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

FullStack Boilerplate 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 FullStack Boilerplate with 11.2K GitHub stars and 3.83K 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
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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 FullStack Boilerplate
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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
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      Robust
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      Easy to Learn
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      Good practices guideline
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      Service container
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      What is FullStack Boilerplate?

      The client was built using react-native-web really easy to turn into a mobile app. The server is written in Node.js.and uses GraphQL with apollo-server for delivering data between client and server and typegoose for interacting with Mongo.

      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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