Spring Vs Laravel- Which One To Choose?

Tags: spring, laravel
Published: 2021-04-08 09:34:15

There are lots of backend frameworks available in the tech market but choosing the best one is a crucial task as it plays a vital role in web app development. Laravel and spring both are popular backend frameworks used to develop web applications, whereas Laravel is from PHP backend programming language and spring is from Java. Though both frameworks are popular in their communities, there is still confusion to choose the best one. If you are also confused, then this blog is for you. Here we’ll discuss the comparison of Spring vs Laravel on the basis of various parameters like performance metrics, scalability, testing, database etc. Before digging to the comparison, let us see the overview of Spring and Laravel.

#Spring-
Spring is an open-source and lightweight framework, used for developing modern Java-based enterprise applications. It provides infrastructural support which focuses on business logic at the application level. Term “Spring” refers to a set of modules or projects like Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, which is called Spring Family. Spring creates a safe environment for programming in Java. It’s modules and frameworks are optimized to deliver desired performance, streamlined development exercise, and security. You can use Spring framework to build enterprise-grade applications, complex web applications and long-running tasks, web-based and stateful applications.

Spotify, Netflix, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are some of the popular apps built with Spring.

#Laravel-
Laravel is a an open-sourced web application framework created by Taylor Otwell in 2011. It is written in PHP and follows the model-view-controller(MVC) architectural pattern. Laravel is known for its server side routing handling, HTML authentication, templating, and more. Since it is a server-side-based framework, you can build SaaS based web apps, on-demand streaming web apps, e-learning web apps, stock trading based web management systems, multilingual CMS system, web apps with reward and recognition features, self-hosted website-performance monitoring apps.

Laracasts, Barchart, Asgard CMS, World Walking, Neighborhood Lender are some of the popular apps developed with laravel.

#Spring Vs Laravel- A Comparison
**1. App Architecture-**
*Spring-*
Spring framework architecture supports high-end modularity with four modules:

Core container- It offers fundamental parts of the framework like dependency injection, Bean module, Expression language module and so on. 
Data integration- It includes JDBC module for database connectivity and Java Messaging service module, Spring transaction management module and so on. All these modules remove boilerplate coding for data access and direct implementation. They establish seamless coordination between Java objects.
Web container- It includes various modules like Web MVC nad Web Socket to develop web apps, multiple file uploading functions and so on.
There are some other modules like Testing, Messaging, Aspect-Oriented Programming that support integration tests, unit tests and address crucial integrations.

*Laravel-*
It follows the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern which provides the ability to divide developer roles for a comfortable development process. In simple words, where frontend developer is working on the views, a backend developer can be working on the controller logic simultaneously. MVC pattern offers a complete control over the application, which eases the selection of app-specific routes and customize how your app appears on a global scale. It improves the app’s SEO and eases the implementation of external APIs and reuse of app logic. 

**2. Performance-**
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