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Volt vs Yii: What are the differences?

Volt: A ruby web framework where your ruby runs on both server and client. Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines; Yii: A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. 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.

Volt and Yii can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Handlebars" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Volt, while over 36 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Yii.

Volt and Yii are both open source tools. Yii with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Volt with 3.3K GitHub stars and 209 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Volt and Yii
Dalton Tan
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This website was originally written in Yii as PHP was my main language back then. After learning Django, I realized just how quickly you could build a web app with less lines. So I migrated my website to Django in a week or two and managed to cut down the lines of code by half. Some of the lines saving came from the models, the views, and the expressiveness of Python. Django requires like config for the models and they provide many generic views that abstracts away common patterns.

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Pros of Volt
Pros of Yii
  • 3
    Rich web applications
  • 3
    Holy Grail (Server-Client)
  • 3
    Reactive Web Framework
  • 3
    Open source
  • 3
    Ruby client side
  • 3
    Handlebars
  • 3
    WebSockets
  • 2
    Real Time
  • 1
    Great Ruby Gems
  • 1
    Super Awesome for Beginners
  • 1
    Fantabulous
  • 42
    Open source
  • 33
    Code generator
  • 33
    Simple
  • 29
    Active record
  • 26
    Full featured
  • 21
    Documentation
  • 21
    High performance
  • 20
    Rapid development
  • 16
    Flexible
  • 11
    Mvc
  • 10
    Not bloated
  • 8
    Stable Release
  • 8
    Community
  • 8
    Amazing
  • 7
    View Helpers
  • 6
    Modular architecture
  • 6
    Long Term Support
  • 5
    Easy setup, easy develop
  • 1
    Easy

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Cons of Volt
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    • 2
      Unnatural love of arrays
    • 1
      Promotes spagetti code
    • 1
      Too Opinionated
    • 1
      Promotes bad practice

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    What is Volt?

    Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

    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.

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    What are some alternatives to Volt and Yii?
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