GitLab vs StyleCI: What are the differences?
What is GitLab? Open source self-hosted Git management software. GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
What is StyleCI? The PHP Coding Style Continuous Integration Service. StyleCI automatically analyses all of your pull requests and will display a build status within GitHub before you merge.
GitLab belongs to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack, while StyleCI can be primarily classified under "Code Review".
Some of the features offered by GitLab are:
- Manage git repositories with fine grained access controls that keep your code secure
- Perform code reviews and enhance collaboration with merge requests
- Each project can also have an issue tracker and a wiki
On the other hand, StyleCI provides the following key features:
- Fix PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-5, Symfony and more.
- We watch all of your pull requests and automatically analyse them.
- Open Source
"Self hosted" is the top reason why over 451 developers like GitLab, while over 4 developers mention "Keeps code style consistent adheres to strict standard" as the leading cause for choosing StyleCI.
GitLab is an open source tool with 20.1K GitHub stars and 5.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitLab's open source repository on GitHub.
Alibaba.com, Freelancer.com, and Electronic Arts are some of the popular companies that use GitLab, whereas StyleCI is used by Simulise, Swat.io, and Voicenode. GitLab has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1219 company stacks & 1431 developers stacks; compared to StyleCI, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.