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The choice between the two depends on the specific requirements and use case of the application.

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SQLite is getting all the hype lately, but can it really compete with MySQL and PostgreSQL for production web applications?

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Let’s review their similarities and differences, and determine when to use which.

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What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL

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Choosing between Swoole and Roadrunner in a Laravel Octane deployment can be overwhelming - in this post I compare the advantages and disadvantages of both.

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Barry Vd. Heuvel, the creator of Laravel Debugbar, compares Debugbar against Telescope.

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Seb De Deyne explains the differences and similarities between Intertia and Livewire.

I’ve seen many people compare the two, or ask if they can be used together. This post showcases their similarities and differences, and should help you understand which problems they each solve best.

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In a new blogpost, Sebastian De Deyne compares Vue syntax with React syntax.

This post is a succinct rundown of most Vue features, and how I would write them with React in 2019 with hooks.

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In a recent interview published on the Cloudways blog Taylor Otwell shares his thoughts on the similarities differences between Laravel and Symfony.

Both Laravel and Symfony are more rapid than building an entire PHP application from scratch. So, in that sense, they both allow rapid application development. However, Laravel does make strong efforts to have a very clean and productive working environment for building applications of all sizes. I think Symfony has also made efforts in this direction over the last few years with their “DX” initiatives and some of the more opinionated things they are doing with Symfony Flex.

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/taylor-otwell-interview/

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Stefan Moises compares a few popular Vue datatable components.

To "get into" Vue.js, I am going to compare different "datatable" solutions I came across and which I found promising. In the past, working with jQuery and mainly AngularJS (1 and 2) and also JAVA frameworks like Grails it was always very difficult and cumbersome to find a really good datatable, which was easy to use, stable and had all the features the projects needed.

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Recently I stumbled upon a page in the VueJs docs where Vue is compared against all other similar frameworks. I'm impressed with the fact that they reached out to authors of the other frameworks to get well balanced comparison.

This is definitely the most difficult page in the guide to write, but we do feel it’s important. Odds are, you’ve had problems you tried to solve and you’ve used another library to solve them. You’re here because you want to know if Vue can solve your specific problems better. That’s what we hope to answer for you.

We also try very hard to avoid bias. As the core team, we obviously like Vue a lot. There are some problems we think it solves better than anything else out there. If we didn’t believe that, we wouldn’t be working on it. We do want to be fair and accurate though. Where other libraries offer significant advantages, such as React’s vast ecosystem of alternative renderers or Knockout’s browser support back to IE6, we try to list these as well.

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

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Laravel-Mediable is a package to upload and handle all sorts of files (aka media) in a Laravel app. It was built by a Canadian based web agency called Plank.

With it you can do things like this:

$media = MediaUploader::fromSource($request->file('thumb'))
    ->toDestination('uploads', 'post/thumbnails')
    ->upload();

$post = Post::create($this->request->input());
$post->attachMedia($media, ['thumbnail']);

Pretty cool. You can read more on the way and how the package was built in an introductory post on the Plank blog.

At Spatie we've also built our own solution for handling media. In Plank's blogpost Sean lists these differences between their package and our Medialibrary.

Since our medialibary was introduced I've been asked from time to time why our medialibrary uses a many-to-one polymorphic relationship. The answer is: simplicity.

A previous iteration of our Blender CMS (a version that used Zend Framework 1 instead of Laravel ?) had a screen where the user could pick a file from all uploaded files (it looked much like this wordpress screen). We saw that, after having set up a lot of sites with Blender, that almost none of our clients used that screen...

In our projects we also see that our clients mostly need to attach an image, or a pdf or whatever, ... to only one model (for instance a news item). It rarely happens that a client wants to attach the same file to different models.

In our code we want to handle that use case as simple as possible and that's why we preferred using a many-to-one relation over a many-to-many relation. All the other differences listed in Plank's post are caused by the same reasoning, we preferred simplicity and ease of use over flexibility.

If you're looking for a good solution to handle media in a Laravel app I suggest you take a look at both our Medialibrary and Plank's Mediable package. Both packages are good at what they do. Pick the one that best fits your project (and just feels good to you).

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In a post on masterzendframework.com Matthew Setter shares his experiences with building the same application in both Laravel and Zend Expression.

The reason being, is that you can't give a straight yes or no answer. It's like asking: is desktop Linux as easy as Windows? The presumption there is that you want to do exactly the same thing in Linux as you can with Windows.

Well, if you wanted the exact same experience on Linux, as you get with Windows, then use Windows! As you're working with two different systems, two different approaches to solving the same challenge, then the end result may be the same — but how they work will naturally be different.

So it is with Laravel and Zend Expressive. They're two exceptional PHP frameworks which can be used to create similar applications. Yet they were designed with different preconceptions about how an application's should be put together. They were designed for different developer mindsets. And the list goes on.

So, whilst I was able to create the same application, roughly about the same size, the way they were developed was different.

http://www.masterzendframework.com/zend-expressive-or-laravel/

I'm currently perfectly happy in the Laravel ecosystem, so I won't be making a switch soon. But I like to keep an eye out on how other frameworks and communities are doing things to learn from that.

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Phil Sturgeon, who has contributed to numerous valuable PHP related projects, is doing Ruby nowadays. In an article he wrote for Sitepoint compares Ruby with PHP.

... I thought it would be interesting to have a slightly more fair comparison, from the perspective of someone who really enjoys writing both PHP and Ruby, and has done so for years. The aim here is not to find out which is “better”, but to point out a few key things I like about Ruby and its ecosystem.

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You may be asking yourself "Why PostgreSQL?" There are several choices for open source relational databases out there (we looked at MySQL, MariaDB and Firebird for this article), but what does PostgreSQL have that they don't? PostgreSQL's tag line claims that it's: "The world's most advanced open source database." We'll give you a few reasons why PostgreSQL makes this claim.

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