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    Node.js

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ANode.js is an open source, asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.

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    Symfony

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASymfony is a PHP framework from French company SensioLabs.N/A
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    User Ratings
    Node.jsSymfony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    6.4
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Node.jsSymfony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    1. Node.js is useful for building one page, fast, light-weight, scalable applications. 2. It is not suitable for building computationally extensive applications, it may lead to bad performance.
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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
    Open Source
    • Robust
    • Fast
    • Modern
    • Easy to learn
    • Allows using JS or TypeScript everywhere
    • Supported and maintained actively by the open source community
    • Pleasurable to work with
    • Reliable
    • Simple to learn
    • Simple to setup
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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
    Open Source
    • It reduce performance while dealing with heavy computational task.
    • Node.js invites a lot of change in code, due to an unstable api.
    • Lack of library support.
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    SensioLabs
    • There are so many ways to do things that FAQs around the internet may not work for the way you did it.
    • The default database ORM doctrine is not well documented and has a large learning curve when optimizing for high traffic.
    • Matching the Symfony version with your selection of bundles makes it difficult to upgrade bundles because many things change between updates.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    Node.js is easy and good to use, their support team is also good they always tend to help you, and solve your problem, even we know that Node is free to use and opensource but then also we get support from them but for getting much better results we need to purchase standard or enterprises support provided by them.
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    SensioLabs
    Symfony has a great following and finding relevant articles or looking into social channels for support is quite easy. I have no comments on any type of official support because I didn't ever need to look into it.
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    Open Source
    There is a smooth and seamless performance for multiple requests as the feedback received from users. and uses one platform to maintain UI and backend.
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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
    Open Source
    • It helps our business to expand our standard offer with new solutions based on Node.js such as conversation bots.
    • It brings avarege 2-3 new clients projects per year, that we couldn't do without it.
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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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