Laravel vs Django: Similarities and Differences

Manish Jain

4 years ago

Table of Contents

What is the Django Framework?
What is Laravel Framework?
Differences: Laravel vs. Django
As We Conclude

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

Differences	Laravel	Django
Open-Source	Yes	Yes
Programming Language	Laravel is a PHP Framework. It follows an object-oriented programming approach and Model-View-Controller Approach. It is equally progressive and popular on TIOBE and GITHUB.	Django is a Python Framework. It follows the Model View Template Approach. It is gaining popularity with over 1 million developers liking it according to TIOBE and GITHUB.
Performance	Laravel’s performance is low.	Django’s performance is high.
Tools	Laravel has much simpler features and contains method injection.	It has a lot of built-in tools like decorators, SEO tools, third-party libraries etc.
Future Scope	Laravel makes use of MVC architecture.	Django is based on monolithic architecture, has a large community and is growing in popularity ever since its inception. Django is capable of creating a plethora of web applications, web pages and web services.
Applications	Laravel can be used to create any type of website like simple CMS to social networking sites to news sites etc.	Django is good for Data Science and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Type	Laravel can be used to create quick and efficient web applications. It makes it extremely easy to perform common tasks like authentication, sessions, routing, caching etc. It is suitable for big enterprise app development and comes along with tightly integrated unit testing support, inversion of control container, expressive migration system etc.	Django comes equipped with libraries, templates and API for connectivity and natural upgrades. The availability of various plugins provides for any missing plugins in Django.
Developer	Created by Taylor Otwell as part of the PHP web framework. It follows the MVC pattern and comes up with some real conventions and some external dependencies like Sentry for error tracking.	Created by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison in 2003.
Learning Curve	Laravel does come up with many features that once learned make it easy for the developers to code. It does come up with easy database migrations, eloquent ORM, composer, packages, REST, templating etc. But with the abundance of learning resources, extensive documentation and a wide video tutorial library that can be referred for web application development, it becomes relatively easier to apply Laravel in web app development.	Django code offers better readability that makes even early developers understand and code. Django features a strong library, documentation, self-contained packages that provide reusable features.
Security	Laravel comes with basic security features. It does come up with certain mechanisms to defy vulnerabilities in the applications.	Django is highly secure and never lets any security issues plague the development process and is suitable for enterprise application development.
More Features	Routing is easy in Laravel and it is quite easy to create an API. Laravel has ORM – Object-relational mapper, to render high-level abstraction on relational databases to help developers write Python code instead of SQL to create, read, modify and delete data and schemas in the database. Laravel framework does bundle up some modular packaging system and dependencies allowing for some upgraded features in the app. Laravel is several times faster than Django. Laravel websites are highly performant. It supports a number of cache backends, including Redis and Memcached. It supports SASL, persistent connections and options.	Routing is possible with the Django REST framework. It does come up with some built-in decorators like login-required, require_POST or has_permission etc. Admin application makes it easy to create a site area, view, modify or delete records. This saves development time. It has base view classes, has its own caching that helps us on saving dynamic pages. It is much easier to provide programmatic mechanisms to declare, render and validate forms against predefined rules. Django brings in some middleware support for conditional GET operations. It also has an extensible authentication system and dynamic administrative interface.
Google Trends	More Popular	Less Popular
Companies that use this technology service	9GAG, UNION, Toyota Hall of fame, Camping World, Explore Georgia, CEENTA, Invite Watch, Packet, Utrip, etc.	Pinterest, Instagram, Sauce Labs, Udemy, Mozilla Firefox, NASA, Mahalo, Onion, The Washington Post, Dropbox, YouTube etc.

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.