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Buffalo vs Phoenix Framework: What are the differences?

Developers describe Buffalo as "MVC Web Framework for Go". Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together. On the other hand, Phoenix Framework is detailed as "Most web frameworks make you choose between speed and a productive environment. Phoenix gives you both". Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

Buffalo and Phoenix Framework can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Go" is the primary reason why developers consider Buffalo over the competitors, whereas "High performance" was stated as the key factor in picking Phoenix Framework.

Buffalo and Phoenix Framework are both open source tools. Phoenix Framework with 13.9K GitHub stars and 1.75K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Buffalo with 4.56K GitHub stars and 358 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Buffalo and Phoenix Framework

#rust #elixir So am creating a messenger with voice call capabilities app which the user signs up using phone number and so at first i wanted to use Actix so i learned Rust so i thought to myself because well its first i felt its a bit immature to use actix web even though some companies are using Rust but we cant really say the full potential of Rust in a full scale app for example in Discord both Elixir and Rust are used meaning there is equal need for them but for Elixir so many companies use it from Whatsapp, Wechat, etc and this means something for Rust is not ready to go full scale we cant assume all this possibilities when it come Rust. So i decided to go the Erlang way after alot of Thinking so Do you think i made the right decision?Am 19 year programmer so i assume am not experienced as you so your answer or comment would really valuable to me

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Pros of Buffalo
Pros of Phoenix Framework
  • 4
    Go
  • 1
    Friendly Api
  • 120
    High performance
  • 76
    Super fast
  • 70
    Rapid development
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Erlang VM
  • 46
    Well designed
  • 45
    Channels
  • 39
    Easily Scalable
  • 35
    Very extensible
  • 35
    Restful
  • 11
    Functional Programming
  • 10
    Inspired by Rails
  • 10
    Great community
  • 8
    Beautiful code
  • 8
    Ecto
  • 6
    Scalable
  • 6
    Fault tolerant
  • 5
    LiveView feature
  • 4
    Elegant
  • 4
    Insanely fast and easy
  • 4
    Feels like working with rails framework with more power
  • 3
    Built-in websocket support
  • 3
    Benevolent dictator that decides project course
  • 3
    Great integration with GraphQL
  • 2
  • 2
    Front-End Agnostic
  • 1
    Functional approach

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Cons of Buffalo
Cons of Phoenix Framework
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    • 6
      No jobs
    • 5
      Very difficult

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    What is Buffalo?

    Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.

    What is Phoenix Framework?

    Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

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