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JAWS

5
49
+ 1
2
Phoenix Framework

941
989
+ 1
678
Play

746
604
+ 1
496
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Pros of JAWS
Pros of Phoenix Framework
Pros of Play
  • 2
    Heroku
  • 120
    High performance
  • 76
    Super fast
  • 70
    Rapid development
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Erlang VM
  • 46
    Well designed
  • 45
    Channels
  • 39
    Easily Scalable
  • 35
    Very extensible
  • 35
    Restful
  • 11
    Functional Programming
  • 10
    Inspired by Rails
  • 10
    Great community
  • 8
    Beautiful code
  • 8
    Ecto
  • 6
    Scalable
  • 6
    Fault tolerant
  • 5
    LiveView feature
  • 4
    Elegant
  • 4
    Insanely fast and easy
  • 4
    Feels like working with rails framework with more power
  • 3
    Built-in websocket support
  • 3
    Benevolent dictator that decides project course
  • 3
    Great integration with GraphQL
  • 2
  • 2
    Front-End Agnostic
  • 1
    Functional approach
  • 81
    Scala
  • 55
    Web-friendly architecture
  • 55
    Built on akka
  • 50
    Stateless
  • 47
    High-scalable
  • 46
    Fast
  • 40
    Open source
  • 34
    Java
  • 27
    High velocity
  • 24
    Fun
  • 9
    Lightweight
  • 8
    Non-blocking io
  • 6
    Developer friendly
  • 5
    Simple template engine
  • 4
    Scalability
  • 3
    Pure love
  • 2
    Resource efficient

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Cons of JAWS
Cons of Phoenix Framework
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    • 6
      No jobs
    • 5
      Very difficult
    • 3
      Evolves fast, keep up with releases
    • 1
      Unnecessarily complicated

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    What is JAWS?

    The Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications

    What is Phoenix Framework?

    Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

    What is Play?

    Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

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      What are some alternatives to JAWS, Phoenix Framework, and Play?
      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.
      Django
      Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
      ASP.NET
      .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.
      Laravel
      It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
      Android SDK
      Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.
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