What are your thoughts about Symfony VS Laravel?
I prefer Laravel. It is much simpler than Symfony but most enterprises are using Symfony. However Laravel is keeping up also (gaining a lot of traction and users).

Laravel = Symfony on Steroids

I wonder why so many people prefer Laravel?

Who's a hardcore Symfony user here? I experienced using both but I prefer Laravel.

Right now I'm studying NodeJS, Express, Angular as it is more popular than Symfony. Also most requiremetns in job posting nowadays.

Laravel = Symfony on Steroids?

Err...no. Not by a wide margin. And this is not because I have something against Laravel. I think its a great framework. But saying that Laravel is Symfony on steroids is like saying that Javelin is Spring Boot on steroids. It just ain't right my man.

Starting from using an ORM like Doctrine....damn that is a nooooice orm. The folder structure and the superb enterprise ready extensions that people have built for it aaaaand many more make Symfony enough of a great stack to not have it compared to others that way.

@AleCx04 mate don't get me wrong I like both Symfony and Laravel. It just so happen that my preference is Laravel

In my area, they are both highly required. The 3rd next PHP framework is Yii framework (which I have no experience yet).

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@Devnergy I dig it. They release a new version of yii and a revamped version of their site. I was playing with it. Seems nice but have no working knowledge of it either

@gintko Hmm do you mean Laravel devs can't do what you described in "Enthusiasts"? 🙄

If "yes" then you are like saying that Laravel devs does not implement SOLID / GoF / Design Patters / Best Practices - DRY KISS YAGNI

You quickly categorized Laravel Devs to Pragmatists. How about Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way for example? They are both good and can be categorized in "Enthusiasts" also 😉

I've worked with symfony for about a year now and I love it, I strongly prefer Doctrine over Eloquent. I must note that I use seperate yaml files for doctrine and prefer not to use annotations