Comparison of Laravel and Symfony frameworks, which is better and in what case. This slideshow was presented at UA Laravel Group meetup in Kiev.

1. Laravel vs Symfony
Comparison of two super-frameworks
Oleksandr Tymchenko, co-founder Beedevs.com

2. Agenda
● Reason to compare
● Laravel and Symfony Advantages
● Stat Numbers
● How to choose
● References

3. Why do we compare them?

4. They’re both quite similar and used for the
same aim
Moreover:
● Each Uses Symfony components (There are 11 components in Laravel *)
● Architecture is build on the same concept:
Request --> Middleware (EventListener) --> Router --> Controller --> Response
*Source: http://symfony.com/projects/laravel

5. They’re both quite similar and used for the
same aim
Laravel
● ORM: Eloquent
● Template Engine: Blade
● Lifecycle: Chain of Middleware
Symfony
● ORM: Doctrine
● Template Engine: Twig
● Lifecycle: Events and Listeners chain

6. Advantages. Laravel
● Faster to learn and that can cover the majority of project requirements. Provides better
learning materials.
● Fast growing and active community.
● Laravel is more suitable for creating applications quickly.

7. Advantages. Symfony
● Official certification, enterprise support with SensioLabs, has predictable release plans.
● Suitable for big/enterprise projects, due to biases in developers community (subjective),
however Laravel could be easily used as well (Laravel in Enterprise: by Taylor Otwell and
Jeffrey Way.
http://www.laravelpodcast.com/episodes/c9a43eeb/episode-53-bigger-better)

8. Stats (on 18.08.2017)
Resource Laravel Symfony
Stackoverflow 68,303 questions tagged 51,719 questions tagged
Github 34,000 stars 15,000 stars
Upwork 552 mentions in jobs 91 mentions in jobs
Rabota.ua (last 30 days) 44 mentions in vacancies 64 mentions in vacancies
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9. Stats. Google Trends

10. Stats. Google Trends
* - be aware that, this is a map with average requests for few years from the moment of Laravel first release in
June 2011

11. So which is better?

12. Conclusions long-run
quick to startup
fun corporate
Laravel / Symfony Symfony
Laravel Symfony / Laravel

13. References
● https://laravel.com
● https://symfony.com/
● Some comparison in code snippets:
https://www.toptal.com/php/choosing-between-symfony-and-laravel-frameworks
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks