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CakePHP vs MEAN: What are the differences?

Developers describe CakePHP as "The Rapid Development Framework for PHP". CakePHP makes building web applications simpler, faster, while requiring less code. A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system. On the other hand, MEAN is detailed as "A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development". MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

CakePHP and MEAN can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider CakePHP over the competitors, whereas "Javascript" was stated as the key factor in picking MEAN.

CakePHP and MEAN are both open source tools. It seems that MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.57K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CakePHP with 7.9K GitHub stars and 3.4K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, CakePHP has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 29 developers stacks; compared to MEAN, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

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Michael Feldhake
Developer at Fleet-Nomics · | 7 upvotes · 46.6K views
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Hi all, I need to create a simple IoT interface application that connects the end device API with a GeoTab API. I am considering using Bubble due to its simple interface and configuration tools, but I fear it's too simple. We will want to add features and new devices as we grow - I was thinking of using CodeIgniter or CakePHP on a hosted site for the application. Must support JCOM encoding between the two APIs and there is no need for a separate interface as GeoTab already has one; we are just connecting and pushing data. Thoughts?

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Jordan Lis
Co-Founder at Partunity · | 1 upvotes · 2.4K views
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You should check out Partunity.com if you want to get plugged in with innovative tech startup ideas!

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Hi, Which tool will you recommend:

I need to build a web application, oriented to small businesses, like a small ERP. It will have intensive use of Sql to access a PostgreSQL database. It has to be secure, as it will handle information on customers, sales, inventory.

If you think another tool will be better, please let that know.

Thanks a lot

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Krunal Shah
Technical Lead at Infynno Solutions · | 5 upvotes · 69K views
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Laravel and Postgres will be the better solutions you can add more like Redis for caching and React/Vue for the frontend.

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Check Spring, if security and reliability is needed along with Lots of Database , check Spring Data, spring web, spring security

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Ademir Mazer Junior
Tech Lead - Software Engineer at UEPG / DN42 · | 2 upvotes · 13.6K views
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Laravel works well in this context, you can build a secure and fast ERP using it with postgresql and all Laravel environment like caching, queues, jobs. And for frontend if you need productiviness I would go with Livewire to help

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Pros of CakePHP
Pros of MEAN
  • 35
    Open source
  • 25
    Really rapid framework
  • 19
    Good code organization
  • 13
    Flexibility
  • 10
    Security best practices
  • 7
    Clean architecture
  • 5
    ORM
  • 5
    Less code
  • 4
    Composer friendly
  • 4
    Convention Over Configuration
  • 2
    CakePhp Book
  • 2
    Cake Bake
  • 2
    Built-in Validation
  • 1
    Ctp view File extension
  • 1
    CakePhp inflector
  • 1
    Quickly develop
  • 1
    Rest Full Apis
  • 86
    Javascript
  • 62
    Easy
  • 58
    Nosql
  • 52
    Great community
  • 50
    Mongoose
  • 50
    Modularity
  • 48
    Open source
  • 37
    Organized
  • 32
    Simple
  • 31
    Boilerplate
  • 10
    AngularJs
  • 9
    CLI
  • 9
    It's simply awesome
  • 8
    Cutting edge tech
  • 7
    Passport
  • 6
    It's a great new exciting stack
  • 6
    Yeoman
  • 6
    Docs
  • 5
    Friendly & Fun
  • 4
    Great Flexibility ;)
  • 4
    The WordPress of javascript apps
  • 3
    Genius
  • 2
    Modular
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    JavaScript only
  • 1
    Growing Community
  • 1
    It's fun and has great potential
  • 1
    Gulp
  • 1
    Because i can write everything using javascript
  • 1
    Fast
  • 0
    The best

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Cons of CakePHP
Cons of MEAN
  • 1
    Robust Baking Tool
  • 1
    Follows Good Programming Practices
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    What is CakePHP?

    It makes building web applications simpler, faster, while requiring less code. A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system.

    What is MEAN?

    MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

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    What are some alternatives to CakePHP and MEAN?
    Laravel
    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.
    CodeIgniter
    CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
    WordPress
    The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
    Rails
    Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
    PHP
    Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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