CodeIgniter vs Vert.x: What are the differences?
What is CodeIgniter? A Fully Baked PHP Framework. CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
What is Vert.x? A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM. It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.
CodeIgniter and Vert.x can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
CodeIgniter is an open source tool with 17.4K GitHub stars and 7.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to CodeIgniter's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, CodeIgniter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 261 company stacks & 105 developers stacks; compared to Vert.x, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.