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Slim vs Total.js: What are the differences?
What is Slim? A PHP micro framework. Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.
What is Total.js? Framework for creating rich web sites, web applications, e-commerce and real-time applications. It is a Framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC.
Slim and Total.js belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.
Slim and Total.js are both open source tools. Slim with 10.1K GitHub stars and 1.86K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Total.js with 3.97K GitHub stars and 434 GitHub forks.
Pros of Slim
- Microframework33
- API27
- Open source22
- Php21
- Fast11
- Restful & fast framework8
- Easy Setup, Great Documentation7
- Modular5
- Clear and straightforward5
- Good document to upgrade from previous version5
- Dependency injection4
- Composer2
- Easy to learn2
Pros of Total.js
- Fast5
- Rapid development5
- Great support4
- Low-code tools4
- UI components3
- Npm3
- Prebuild apps3
- Javascript2
- Develooment cloud2
- Open Source2
- Node.js2
- Easy to deploy1
- Resource aviable for learning1
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Cons of Slim
Cons of Total.js
- Lack of source code documentation3
- Poor design2
- Poor community2
- Messes up global namespace and default prototypes2
- Poor design - 4000 line files2
- Developed as "one man show"2
- Memory leaks1
- Heavy relies on setTimeout1
- Prototype polution1
- Re-invented Lodash poorly1
- In-house bundler allows to commint syntax errors1
- In-house WS client (conflicts with rfc6455 spec)1