🆚 Flow vs. Symfony

Flow, formerly known as TYPO3 Flow or FLOW3, is a PHP web application framework focused on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and clean code principles.

It offers a modular architecture, a powerful templating engine called Fluid, supports Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), and provides transparent object persistence.

Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity.

It features over 50 decoupled packages for routing, templating, dependency injection, form validation, security, console tools, and internationalization.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 10th most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🔥 12nd most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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