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Lumen

Stacks430

Followers667

+ 1

Votes161

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Stacks709

Followers385

+ 1

Votes311

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Lumen vs Yii: What are the differences?

Developers describe Lumen as "The stunningly fast PHP micro-framework by Laravel". Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching. On the other hand, Yii is detailed as "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.

Lumen and Yii are primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.

"API" is the top reason why over 16 developers like Lumen, while over 35 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Yii.

Lumen and Yii are both open source tools. Lumen with 6.29K GitHub stars and 833 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Yii with 4.87K GitHub stars and 2.21K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Yii has a broader approval, being mentioned in 48 company stacks & 29 developers stacks; compared to Lumen, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

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Pros of Lumen

Pros of Yii

38
API
28
Microframework
19
MVC
16
PHP
12
Open source
11
Eloquent
10
Restful & fast framework
8
Composer
7
Illuminate support
4
Brother of laravel and fast
4
Easy to learn
4
Fast

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 Lumen

Cons of Yii

3
Not fast
2
PHP
1
Not fast with MongoDB

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

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What is Lumen?

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

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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It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

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Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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