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Phalcon:: The Extremely Fast Framework

it_geeks — Mon, 08 May 2017 12:39:43 +0000

“Phalcon” a high-performance PHP Web framework. It is written as a C extension. Phalcon is probably one’s go to framework, if the application has to be in PHP and be as performant as possible. Since , it is very fast, but cannot run on shared hosting. As compiled as a C extension into PHP which makes it faster by an order of magnitude. Phalcon doesn’t have footprint in one’s project it resides in one’s memory, so it will not be seen specific code in your project. We can’t play around with Phalcon’s source code and modify to fit different needs.

In PHALCON, as default, directory structure, and the way one write classes dictates routes. Phalcon is blazing fast. Phalcon is different, as it is delivered as a php extension, which will be injected into the php core while running. So, we can just download the extension on Windows, or rebuild it, enable it in php.ini, and after that we got a high performance framework working. It is not easy extendable at all. Phalcon is a completely different framework as its core files are compiled as a php extension. Its fastest PHP framework but because of the dependency on many core api’s the documentation becomes the limiting factor. Phalcon is compiled framework hence changing some core functionality would be difficult. When one’s own code hooks into a class/method of Phalcon, that method will be executed directly as C, which is already compiled to machine code, which is basically as fast as one can get. Unlike most PHP frameworks, Phalcon is implemented as a web server extension and aiming to boost execution speed, reduce resource usage, and handle more HTTP requests per second than comparable frameworks written primarily in PHP.

Pros

Extremely fast
The team seems really dedicated so much so they have a fundraising page to make the lead developer full time

Cons

We’d be relying on a framework we can’t just jump in and fix if there is a bug until an official patch is out.
It doesn’t work with HHVM

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Protractor

it_geeks — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:52:11 +0000

Protractor is a familiar automation framework specific to AngularJS. Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications. It allows you do drive the browser and test the expected state of your application’s pages. This sort of functional testing is an essential component of any overall testing strategy. Protractor runs on top of selenium. So if one’s application is created using angularJS, then protractor will help as it has in built support for angular JS page load and actions. Protractor is a test framework for Angular JS applications which uses Selenium to automate the browser behavior. Most of us are familiar with the WebDriver (Selenium) which we use to automate the browsers.

Protractor is an Open Source, and built by a team in Google on top of WebDriverJS with existing technologies such as Selenium, Node.js and Jasmine which makes writing tests a breeze. It’s also a replacement for the existing AngularJS E2E testing framework called “Angular Scenario Runner”.

Why Protractor?

Protractor is a wrapper around Selenium WebDriverJS and Selenium Server.It has new locator strategies and functions specifically for Angular apps. Automatic waiting, can execute the next step in you test the moment the webpage finishes pending tasks. One Can take the advantage of the Selenium grid to run multiple browser at once.We Can run test on both real and headless browsers.

– Easily install and setup

– Easily readable jasmine framework

– Support Data Driven test

– Include all advantages of Selenium WebDriver

– Auto-Synchronization

– Support parallel testing through multiple browsers

– Excellent speed

Some not so good points of Protractor::It is basically a UI driven testing tool, provide only front-end testing and there is no any detailed test report, other than test log, it needs more time to script and is more sensitive and Zero Tolerance.

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Vue.js

it_geeks — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:26:18 +0000

Vue.js is a javascript framework to build user interfaces. Vue.js is a library for building web interfaces. Vue.js is simple, minimal core with an incrementally adoptable stack that can handle apps of any scale. Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated Single-Page Applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries .

Basically Vue.js let one code in an highly reusable way, create components that one can use as “html-like tags” in your page, binding data, functions and other very useful properties to every component. It has quickly overtaken React.js and jQuery in terms of popularity and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Vue.js is truly descriptive , declarative rendering, as oppose to other frameworks/libraries. Vue.js provides a lot of fantastic features to work with DOM. Vue.js does not require webpack. Vue.js also reduces a ton of line of codes. Vue.js is really approachable and provides a little more structure on how to approach various things. Vue.js is also suitable for light-weight projects. It provides very different functionality though, namely structure and modularization. In fact, one can use JQuery and Vue.js together. Vue.js was 3rd most starred project in 2016 on GitHub. Vue is simpler, Vue.js is much easier to integrate into many frameworks like Laravel, Rails or even Django. Parsing, ajax, and data binding can be done with Vue.js. Vue is focusing on building some of the best actions in web UI development like components, declarative UI, hot-reloading, time-travel debugging and etc. Vue.js has a much less complicated learning curve in comparison with Angular 2.

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