Express.js vs. Laravel PHP Framework

Express.js

Express.js

2 Reviews and Ratings

Laravel PHP Framework

Laravel PHP Framework

100 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Express.js	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides features for web and mobile applications, available free and open source under the Creative Commons license. Express provides a thin layer of fundamental web application features, without obscuring Node.js features.	N/A
Laravel PHP Framework	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.	N/A

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Express.js

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Express.js	Laravel PHP Framework
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
	Express.js	Laravel PHP Framework
Considered Both Products	Express.js No answer on this topic	Laravel PHP Framework Fahad Shaikh Web Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework I have used CodeIgniter in the past for a couple of projects. As per my experience, we can go for CodeIgniter for smaller projects due to its simplicity. But as the project size grows, one should choose a more organized framework with larger community support. This is the … Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework The majority of the above-mentioned frameworks are good at some particular things. Laravel PHP Framework in general is capable of doing all the same things with standard best practices. Additionally, Laravel PHP Framework brings great community support that is ever-growing. the … Incentivized Helpful? HASAN SARFRAZ Web Developer Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel is much better than CodeIgniter in many aspects, First of all it is more secure and robust. It has a great troubleshooting mechanism. They have added more libraries, themes and plug-ins for different purposes. The MVC model helped the developers to get rid of writing … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Patterson Software Development Director Chose Laravel PHP Framework Both frameworks, by in large, serve the same needs and are only dependent upon the platform that will be supported. However, I find .Net to be a bit more robust when it comes to data security needs (encryption, management, etc.) compared to Laravel and that may be a deciding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Different frameworks have their different pros and cons. I cannot compare one framework with another as every product has its own positive impacts. Incentivized Helpful? BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Chose Laravel PHP Framework Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel PHP Framework is the most developed, updated framework right now, with lots of features. Using older versions is less appreciated by the developer community. It is well documented, and Laravel has a pretty big community of supporters getting your query solved faster and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework If you are using PHP, you should be using Laravel! It is superior in every way to CodeIgniter & CakePHP. Not to be unfair to Cake & CodeIgniter, which both have built in ORM, making queries very simple. Laravel on the other hand offers their eloquent ORM that makes database … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel PHP Framework is continuously updating its framework and developing new tools to make web development more useful, optimized, and bug-free. Also there is a large community of users on Stack Overflow and other websites that can help you get questions cleared up quickly. … Incentivized Helpful? Tarun Mangukiya Co-Founder Chose Laravel PHP Framework When we were using CodeIgniter, it always felt that something is missing. We were unable to find the proper libraries that supports it and the support from the community around. Once we came to know about Laravel, we never have touched CodeIgniter. Laravel is a well documented … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Chose Laravel PHP Framework In my experience, if a development team is using an MVC framework that's not Laravel, they're doing one of two things: 1. Using an older framework like Code Igniter, CakePHP, or one of the many dozen others Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer Chose Laravel PHP Framework Laravel is built on top of Symfony so is naturally a better upgrade. It is far superior than cake and igniter (in my opinion). I don't remember, but somewhere in internet someone made a comparison with Laravel and others as racing motor-bike vs a cycle. Because of large … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Adams Owner/CTO Chose Laravel PHP Framework I inherited Laravel projects originally created by other developers. I haven't migrated clients at this time, however as the project gets bigger and I need to find more elaborate workarounds to address needs that option will be put on the table. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Laravel PHP Framework The best comparison I can make is against Symfony. It's curious that Laravel is built on top of Symfony. They chose the packages that they found to be useful. Symfony for instance comes with way too much stuff that in the end you never use, and Laravel just comes with the right … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Express.js	Laravel PHP Framework
Small Businesses	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10	CodeIgniter Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10	Symfony Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	Express.js	Laravel PHP Framework
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Express.js	Laravel PHP Framework
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	This framework's pros are more than cons. It can be used for many purposes; building e-commerce is one of them. 1. Code is clean and simple because of its routing. 2. Connection to database and query optimizing. 3. The amazing automatic memory to remember past queries is a big plus. 4. Migrations is the most crucial feature of this framework. 5. Supporting unit tests out of the box. 6. Artisan to use command line. 7. Large community to support your queries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net) Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc) Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc) Incentivized Jim Rubenstein Chief Technology Officer Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	There isn't a whole lot to dislike about the framework, honestly. If I am forced to say something is that sometimes the authors change the directory layout and it's not always easy to deal with. That being said, I've never not been able to upgrade within a few hours. Sometimes using the artisan CLI - it requires additional tweaking to get it running on non-standard application rollouts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred development style, it utilized many of the modern best-practices I wanted to follow, and I felt that it allowed me to build better things in less time that seemed more maintainable. I have used, and still do use, Symfony directly for certain things, but I think of it (and use it) more as a code library than as a full application framework. When I'm building a web application, I tend to prefer Laravel. Incentivized BM Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual. Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary. Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times. Incentivized Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer Read full review
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