Yii vs. Grails vs. Revel

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Description

What is Yii?

Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

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.

What is Revel?

Revel makes it easy to build web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by relying on conventions that require a certain structure in your application. In return, it is very light on configuration and enables an extremely fast development cycle.

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Pros

Why do you like Yii?

Why do you like Grails?

Why do developers choose Revel?

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Go
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MVC
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High-Productivity
4
Full-Stack
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High performance
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Open source
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Simple

Why do you like Revel?

Cons

What are the cons of using Yii?

No Cons submitted yet for Yii

Downsides of Yii?

What are the cons of using Grails?

No Cons submitted yet for Grails

Downsides of Grails?

What are the cons of using Revel?

No Cons submitted yet for Revel

Downsides of Revel?

Companies

What companies use Yii?

66 companies on StackShare use Yii

What companies use Grails?

53 companies on StackShare use Grails

What companies use Revel?

3 companies on StackShare use Revel

Integrations

What tools integrate with Yii?

2 tools on StackShare integrate with Yii

PHP
Deployer

What tools integrate with Grails?

4 tools on StackShare integrate with Grails

What tools integrate with Revel?

2 tools on StackShare integrate with Revel

Go
AnyChart

What are some alternatives to Yii, Grails, and Revel?

Node.js - Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications
Rails - Web development that doesn't hurt
Android SDK - The Android SDK provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android.
Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

See all alternatives to Yii