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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sencha

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASencha is a mobile application development platform acquired by IDERA in 2017.N/A

    Symfony

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASymfony is a PHP framework from French company SensioLabs.N/A
    Pricing
    SenchaSymfony
    Editions & Modules
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    SenchaSymfony
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    SenchaSymfony
    Small Businesses
    React (React.js)
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Laravel PHP Framework
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    SenchaSymfony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SenchaSymfony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    It's great to develop business applications. Previously, we tried different technologies but we find it the most suitable for us. We also deploy a generic backend so we don't need to install anything new to implement new applications. This helps us to develop very fast and with very low effort.
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    SensioLabs
    Any small project which you want to have ready in a couple of hours would be probably a bad candidate for using Symfony. Even the most seasoned senior developer can easily spend hours or days creating a small MVP with Symfony. While Symfony's learning curve isn't necessarily bad and will depend a lot on the architectural knowledge of the developer itself, because of the modularity required by Symfony you will need to spend a significant amount of time coding. If you are looking for a quick project, perhaps this framework isn't the best solution. Robust applications can benefit from Symfony's architecture. I have participated in projects on different industries including lead generation, marketing and even some micro-services for other industries which use Symfony. Because of how thorough the framework has been architected, you will have a reliable solution.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • It's a complete solution that has a vast array of pre built components, charts and a data-grid based solution.
    • Security comes out of the box.
    • It's mobile and tablet ready.
    • It has a lot of support from the community so solutions are easily available
    • You can add your own flavor via theme customizations and built in component extension.
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    SensioLabs
    • Sonata Admin for Symfony is very versatile and we've used it for both the admin part of our website (even created a landing page constructor using it) and for the ERP system we've developed for inside use.
    • It is easy to learn if you know PHP and the community is quite large so you can easily find experts to help you with issues.
    • It's good for high-load projects. We have used it for the back-end of a custom affiliate marketing system that currently processes over 180 million requests per day.
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • More default themes
    • Biggest community
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    SensioLabs
    • More powerful ecosystem of apps (paid and free)
    • Doctrine (which is the goto ORM) needs more work
    • Queue manager UI
    • Deployment options
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    Usability
    Idera, Inc.
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    SensioLabs
    It can be a little complex at the begining comapred to some other frameworks, but this gives very good structure and makes it bulletproof for scaling actually large applications. The framework is built in a way that you can start simple and bring incremental improvements to make sure your app responds to traffic, demand, and growing usage.
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    SensioLabs
    There is a lot of community support but because Symfony is so flexible and unopinionated, there are too many ways to do things and if you lock yourself into one way, most of the advice online will not work for you.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Idera, Inc.
    Each of the above platforms offer a specific solution. Sencha provides a complete solution that is a library of components as well as a framework to modularize your application so that it's better manageable. Once you get over the learning curve of the whole technology it's a breeze to implement new functionality within the application. We have an aggressive client who comes to us every other day with some new requirement, and sencha has been able to answer all of those without issues.
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    SensioLabs
    Symfony has become such a standard that many frameworks which previously may have been seen as competition, are actually adopting Symfony components to allow them to focus more on what makes their solution unique. Drupal 8 has replaced much of its low-level internal code with Symfony components. Laravel utilizes much from Symfony and builds on it. CakePHP was my preferred framework over Zend and CodeIgniter, but now I typically prefer Symfony or Laravel depending on the type of application and complexity of what I'm doing.
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • Excellent applications
    • Very good performance
    • Not very used, and developers don't like it at the beginning
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    SensioLabs
    • One negative thing to point out of Symfony is how painful it is to migrate legacy or relatively old projects from previous versions of Symfony into newer versions.
    • Symfony projects are usually reliable and provide the results you need.
    • Performance can be an issue sometime depending on the kind of project you are working on. Symfony can have some issues with cache.
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