Sencha vs. Yii Framework

Sencha is suited for:

• Enterprise applications that are really huge
• Development happens on huge teams, on-shore an offshore model, one can divide and conquer by splitting in modules easily
• Budget is not a constraint

It's not uited for:

• Small budget applications
• Not too many components are needed
• Static or less dynamic content based websites
• Turnaround time is shorter and developers have to spin something around in a short duration of time

Incentivized

Yii is very well suited if you love to program with Object Oriented PHP. This framework uses OOP very well and if you know this pattern you'll love it. The same applies for its MVC architecture and if you come from formal software development education. Also if you are in a bussiness enviroment and need a stable framework. This is the tool for you. It uses very formal scheme but I would like more open and hackable framework, and for this Yii2 is not a good option. Also, if you like to have bleeding edge technologies I don't recommend this framework.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Generating forms and integrates bootstrap
• Provides great CRUD functionality with active record
• Provides lots of useful HTML helper widgets for UI enhancement
• Provides good access control (RBAC)

Incentivized

• More default themes
• Biggest community

Incentivized

• Maybe support to update their main components like jQuery or Boostrap. It's too attached with the included versions.
• Their view template engine is simple, doesn't offer support for better options like competition.
• Wiki can include more tutorials for common examples or problems.

Incentivized

We are in the process of migrating our old application to Yii Framework.

Incentivized

I think is really easy to use, it's not perfect but many developers with great experience will know how to exploit this framework to create great apps!

Incentivized

It's has a really good support based on online documentation and official forums. But sometimes I wish there were a paid service where to report some urgent issues.

Incentivized

You have to check their documentation, they explain everything so don't skip it.

Incentivized

The main reason we chose Sencha is it’s full stack solution. We have an integrated backend that solves a lot of the infrastructure issues and Sencha was the only tool in the market that has only one library full of components. It is not fashionable to use it, as developers always love new technologies, but Sencha is the best for business applications and has a lot of useful tools.

Incentivized

We have used Zend Framework. In comparison Yii Framework is much more lightweight and has smaller learning curve.

Incentivized

• Excellent applications
• Very good performance
• Not very used, and developers don't like it at the beginning

Incentivized

• Initial learning was hard, it has very specific tools and requires a basic knowledge that takes time to learn. But after that it's really fast and easy to do apps.
• When it changed to version 2, servers had to be be upgraded due to the new requirements. Also it required to learn many things that were not backwards compatible.
• It saves time by help us to create great applications in less time but very powerfuls.

Incentivized