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Gin Gonic vs Symfony: What are the differences?
Gin Gonic: HTTP web framework written in Go *. It is an HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance. It is up to 40 times faster; *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.
Gin Gonic and Symfony can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Gin Gonic and Symfony are both open source tools. It seems that Gin Gonic with 28.9K GitHub stars and 3.34K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Symfony with 21.1K GitHub stars and 7.01K GitHub forks.
Typeform, Accenture, and Docplanner are some of the popular companies that use Symfony, whereas Gin Gonic is used by SpartanGeek, Sezzle, and SEASON. Symfony has a broader approval, being mentioned in 375 company stacks & 278 developers stacks; compared to Gin Gonic, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
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.
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.
Pros of Gin Gonic
- Hight performance11
- Open source5
Pros of Symfony
- Open source177
- Php149
- Community130
- Dependency injection129
- Professional122
- Doctrine80
- Organized75
- Modular architecture71
- Smart programming47
- Solid45
- Documentation20
- LTS releases16
- Decoupled framework components10
- Robust10
- Easy to Learn10
- Good practices guideline8
- Service container8
- Bundle8
- Powerful7
- Simple7
- Flexible6
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Cons of Gin Gonic
- Low performance2
- No wildcard routing1
Cons of Symfony
- Too many dependency10
- Lot of config files8
- YMAL4
- Feature creep3
- Bloated1
