CakePHP Alternatives

CakePHP is described as 'Rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development' and is a software framework in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CakePHP for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best CakePHP alternative is Laravel, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CakePHP are Ruby on Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter and Zend Framework.

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  1. ASP.NET MVC icon
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    The ASP.NET MVC is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  2. Minimalist PHP MVC framework in a 55KB file, offering template engine, caching, unit testing, spam protection, bandwidth control, ORM, easy extensibility, SQL handler, plugin support, user authentication, and open-source design for simple rapid development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  3. Koa icon
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    Expressive middleware for node.js using generators via co to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write. Koa's middleware flow in a stack-like manner allowing you to perform actions downstream, then filter and manipulate the response upstream.

    89 Koa alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. Awes.io icon
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    Creating a project is as easy as making pizza 🍕. Ready-to-use dedicated open-source packages on Github, built on Laravel & Vue.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Grails icon
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    Grails is a high-productivity web framework based on the Groovy language that embraces the coding by convention paradigm, but is designed specifically for the Java platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  6. Nette Framework is a popular tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be the most usable as possible and is definitely one of the safest one. It speaks your language and helps you to easily build better websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  7.  6 likes

    Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  8. Silex - The PHP micro-framework based on Symfony2 Components

    Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra.

    A microframework provides the guts for building simple single-file apps. Silex aims to be:

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  9. Pedestal icon
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    Pedestal is a web application framework written in Clojure that aims to bring both the language and its principles to client and server-side development.

    84 Pedestal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Phalcon icon
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    Phalcon is a high-performance PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed under the terms of the BSD License (from wikipedia).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  11.  5 likes

    Port of Ruby on Rails development framework and designed to work for PHP4 and PHP5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Mako is a lightweight and easy to use PHP framework MVC modular.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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