Laravel PHP Framework vs. SLIM

Laravel PHP Framework

Laravel PHP Framework

103 Reviews and Ratings

SLIM

SLIM

0 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Laravel PHP Framework	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.	N/A
SLIM	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

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Laravel PHP Framework

SLIM

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Laravel PHP Framework	SLIM
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Community Pulse
	Laravel PHP Framework	SLIM
Considered Both Products	Laravel PHP Framework Evelyn Dickinson (She/Her) Senior Consultant / Founder Chose Laravel PHP Framework Symphony is much more challenging to learn and requires a longer development cycle than Laravel. Django is a Python framework similar to Laravel, but it is very opinionated. Everything must be done the Django way, and it is a bit more restrictive than Laravel. It does have a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel's community was more active, the ecosystem was more expansive, and the documentation was much stronger. CakePHP caught my eye for its simplicity; however, when I began exploring all of the things that I hoped that the web application might be able to do, it quickly … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Brower Owner and Lead Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel PHP Framework's documentation and toolchain sets it above the rest by making it easy to work into your environment. Spend more time creating and less time configuring servers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework WordPress with WooCommerce provides the good support for WooCommerce but as it is built on top of the WordPress limitations kick in whereas we can build whatever we want using Laravel PHP Framework. Laravel PHP Framework and WordPress is open source whereas shopify is not and … Incentivized Helpful? Fahad Shaikh Web Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework I have used CodeIgniter in the past for a couple of projects. As per my experience, we can go for CodeIgniter for smaller projects due to its simplicity. But as the project size grows, one should choose a more organized framework with larger community support. This is the … Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework The majority of the above-mentioned frameworks are good at some particular things. Laravel PHP Framework in general is capable of doing all the same things with standard best practices. Additionally, Laravel PHP Framework brings great community support that is ever-growing. the … Incentivized Helpful? HASAN SARFRAZ Web Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel is much better than CodeIgniter in many aspects, First of all it is more secure and robust. It has a great troubleshooting mechanism. They have added more libraries, themes and plug-ins for different purposes. The MVC model helped the developers to get rid of writing … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Patterson Software Development Director Chose Laravel PHP Framework Both frameworks, by in large, serve the same needs and are only dependent upon the platform that will be supported. However, I find .Net to be a bit more robust when it comes to data security needs (encryption, management, etc.) compared to Laravel and that may be a deciding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Different frameworks have their different pros and cons. I cannot compare one framework with another as every product has its own positive impacts. Incentivized Helpful? BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Chose Laravel PHP Framework Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel PHP Framework is the most developed, updated framework right now, with lots of features. Using older versions is less appreciated by the developer community. It is well documented, and Laravel has a pretty big community of supporters getting your query solved faster and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework If you are using PHP, you should be using Laravel! It is superior in every way to CodeIgniter & CakePHP. Not to be unfair to Cake & CodeIgniter, which both have built in ORM, making queries very simple. Laravel on the other hand offers their eloquent ORM that makes database … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel PHP Framework is continuously updating its framework and developing new tools to make web development more useful, optimized, and bug-free. Also there is a large community of users on Stack Overflow and other websites that can help you get questions cleared up quickly. … Incentivized Helpful? Tarun Mangukiya Co-Founder Chose Laravel PHP Framework When we were using CodeIgniter, it always felt that something is missing. We were unable to find the proper libraries that supports it and the support from the community around. Once we came to know about Laravel, we never have touched CodeIgniter. Laravel is a well documented … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Chose Laravel PHP Framework In my experience, if a development team is using an MVC framework that's not Laravel, they're doing one of two things: 1. Using an older framework like Code Igniter, CakePHP, or one of the many dozen others Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel is built on top of Symfony so is naturally a better upgrade. It is far superior than cake and igniter (in my opinion). I don't remember, but somewhere in internet someone made a comparison with Laravel and others as racing motor-bike vs a cycle. Because of large … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Adams Owner/CTO Chose Laravel PHP Framework I inherited Laravel projects originally created by other developers. I haven't migrated clients at this time, however as the project gets bigger and I need to find more elaborate workarounds to address needs that option will be put on the table. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework The best comparison I can make is against Symfony. It's curious that Laravel is built on top of Symfony. They chose the packages that they found to be useful. Symfony for instance comes with way too much stuff that in the end you never use, and Laravel just comes with the right … Incentivized Helpful?	SLIM No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Laravel PHP Framework	SLIM
Small Businesses	CodeIgniter Score 8.8 out of 10	Acumatica Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Symfony Score 10.0 out of 10	Acumatica Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	SAP Cloud ERP Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Laravel PHP Framework	SLIM
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Laravel PHP Framework	SLIM
Likelihood to Recommend	Laravel is ideally suited for fluent PHP developers who want a framework that can be used to both rapidly prototype web applications as well as support scalable, enterprise-level solutions. I think where it is less ideal is where the client has an expectation of using a certain CMS, or of having a certain experience on the admin side that would perhaps be better suited to a full CMS such as Drupal or WordPress. Additionally, for developers who don't want to write PHP code, Laravel may not be the best solution. Incentivized BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net) Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc) Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc) Incentivized Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	There isn't a whole lot to dislike about the framework, honestly. If I am forced to say something is that sometimes the authors change the directory layout and it's not always easy to deal with. That being said, I've never not been able to upgrade within a few hours. Sometimes using the artisan CLI - it requires additional tweaking to get it running on non-standard application rollouts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	Laravel PHP Framework has continued to exceed my expectations. It supported me in the development of a high quality and stable web application that is mission critical for the organization. I cannot imagine wanting to use any other tool for web development. Documentation, unit tests, and numerous integration options make using Laravel PHP Framework a natural choice. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	As I mentioned earlier Laravel PHP Framework has lot of in built feature as well as there is vast set of packages available to add the features in your application. It has very large community who can help when you feel stuck somewhere. This is why this rating is justified. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Symphony is much more challenging to learn and requires a longer development cycle than Laravel. Django is a Python framework similar to Laravel, but it is very opinionated. Everything must be done the Django way, and it is a bit more restrictive than Laravel. It does have a better built-in security stack. Express.js is a microframework that excels at handling communication pipelines at scale. However, it requires a lot of asynchronous coding, which adds a great deal of complexity. Incentivized Evelyn Dickinson (She/Her) Senior Consultant / Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual. Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary. Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times. Incentivized Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
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