Laravel vs Django: Similarities and Differences

A framework is an abstract tool that helps developers and designers to reuse the code, has a template structure, common code, but does not have a user interface. These speed up the process of development. They offer pre-built modules to perform complex coding tasks. This saves time by helping developers in utilizing their time and efforts efficiently rather than in re-building the foundation with every project. Frameworks define the skeleton of the application, thus providing the required stability.

What is the Django framework?

• Django Python Framework is faster.
• It is suitable for rapid development.
• Django has greater community support, comes with great packages, is easy to learn and has great libraries.
• Django comes across many built-in tools like decorators, SEO tools, third-party libraries etc.
• It supports multiple languages which makes it compatible with various multilingual websites by its built-in internationalization system which is present in its internal system.
• Django supports object-relational mapping (ORM) that provides an interface between the application and database to persist the data from a database efficiently.
• It provides a development environment with a lightweight server that serves faster and easier deployment, ensuring end-to-end development and testing activities.
• Django has validating systems that are used to translate between web page forms and database values.
• It supports Caching, Ajax, RSS and has middle-wares support.

 What is Laravel Framework?

• Laravel is a premier and most widely used PHP framework for web development
• It is easy to set up, fast and easily customizable.
• It does not come with an auto-loading facility and does not require manual maintenance and inclusion paths
• It does not support XML or YAML
• It comes with many tools and libraries for easy development
• It supports MVC architecture and databases like SQLite, PostgreSQL, Microsoft BI, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB, etc.
• Laravel comes with over 9000 packages and comes with extensive compilers for package distribution and management.
• It automatically detects and scans dependencies and doesn’t require the creation of dependency configurations.
• Takes care of unauthorized users’ access,
• Handles errors and exceptions effectively,
• Has monologue logging library,
• It comes up with regular updates,
• Structures authorization logic,
• Separates presentation from the logic layer,
• Configures delivery delays,
• Comes with a pre-configured scheduler,
• Laravel manages queued messages with help of unified APIs.
• Taking it a step further, it has unified API across a variety of different queue backends that defer the processing of a time-consuming task and speed up web requests to the web application, following the restful routing.
• Enables expressive testing,
• Simulating user behaviour of clicking on links and filling out on forms etc.,
• It has a simple yet powerful API,
• provides routing via app/http/routes.php,
• It allows sending emails through cloud-based and local services.
• Laravel has drivers for Mandrill, SparkPost, Mailgun, SMTP, Amazon SES, Sendmail, PHP’s mail functions and is ahead of normally available web services and mailer APIs.
• It also provides supports to developers for sending out notifications via multiple channels like Slack, SMS etc.
• Laravel PHP Framework supports robust cache backends such as Redis and Memcached which is a distributed memory object caching system, it is capable of handling multiple cache configurations.
• Laravel supports Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) with an active record implementation.

Differences: Laravel vs. Django

 As We Conclude

The choice of the framework ultimately depends upon the project requirements, the available skillsets, the client’s budget, the security issues like cross-site request forgery, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, clickjacking etc. Laravel comes across a reliable and easy approach to beginners, especially in routing. It helps in creating huge enterprise-grade applications or simple JSON API’s. Laravel PHP Framework is growing and the latest versions are more scalable, secure and highly responsive. Django Framework comes up with an established library, advice, and tutorials section which makes the final choice to select one framework out of the two even more difficult. If you are looking for developing php web applications in any of the two frameworks or wish to know more about PHP Development Services in general, reach out to us.