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Phoenix Framework vs Rocket: What are the differences?
Phoenix Framework: 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; Rocket: Web Framework for Rust. Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety. All with minimal code.
Phoenix Framework and Rocket can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"High performance" is the top reason why over 100 developers like Phoenix Framework, while over 2 developers mention "Uses all the rust features extensively" as the leading cause for choosing Rocket.
Phoenix Framework and Rocket are both open source tools. It seems that Phoenix Framework with 13.9K GitHub stars and 1.75K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rocket with 7.29K GitHub stars and 489 GitHub forks.
Pros of Phoenix Framework
- High performance113
- Super fast74
- Rapid development69
- Open source60
- Erlang VM60
- Well designed46
- Channels43
- Easily Scalable37
- Restful35
- Very extensible35
- Functional Programming11
- Great community9
- Inspired by Rails9
- Beautiful code8
- Ecto8
- Scalable6
- Fault tolerant6
- Insanely fast and easy4
- Elegant4
- Feels like working with rails framework with more power4
- LiveView feature3
- Great integration with GraphQL3
- Benevolent dictator that decides project course3
- 2
- Front-End Agnostic2
- Built-in websocket support2
- KK1
- Functional approach1
Pros of Rocket
- Uses all the rust features extensively4
- Easy to use3
- Django analog in rust1
- Provides nice abstractions1
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Cons of Phoenix Framework
- No jobs6
- Very difficult5
