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Phoenix Framework vs Revel: What are the differences?

Developers describe Phoenix Framework as "Most web frameworks make you choose between speed and a productive environment. Phoenix gives you both". 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. On the other hand, Revel is detailed as "A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language". 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.

Phoenix Framework and Revel can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"High performance" is the top reason why over 100 developers like Phoenix Framework, while over 12 developers mention "Go" as the leading cause for choosing Revel.

Phoenix Framework and Revel are both open source tools. It seems that Phoenix Framework with 14K GitHub stars and 1.76K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Revel with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Phoenix Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 73 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to Revel, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Decisions about Phoenix Framework and Revel
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#rust #elixir So am creating a messenger with voice call capabilities app which the user signs up using phone number and so at first i wanted to use Actix so i learned Rust so i thought to myself because well its first i felt its a bit immature to use actix web even though some companies are using Rust but we cant really say the full potential of Rust in a full scale app for example in Discord both Elixir and Rust are used meaning there is equal need for them but for Elixir so many companies use it from Whatsapp, Wechat, etc and this means something for Rust is not ready to go full scale we cant assume all this possibilities when it come Rust. So i decided to go the Erlang way after alot of Thinking so Do you think i made the right decision?Am 19 year programmer so i assume am not experienced as you so your answer or comment would really valuable to me

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Pros of Phoenix Framework
Pros of Revel
  • 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
  • 16
    Go
  • 6
    High-Productivity
  • 5
    Full-Stack
  • 4
    High performance
  • 4
    MVC
  • 2
    Open source
  • 1
    Simple

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Cons of Phoenix Framework
Cons of Revel
  • 6
    No jobs
  • 5
    Very difficult
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    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 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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    What are some alternatives to Phoenix Framework and Revel?
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