Symfony vs. Laravel - Which is best?

In this video you'll learn the main differences between both frameworks and you'll see how the same project can be implemented using each one.

[houseandhobby]

Thanks guys for making this English version of the discussion. Smart dudes, multi-langual, and speaking on abstract topics and patterns and such. Was an interesting, thought-provoking discussion thanks so much for caring to do this.

[leonf.]

This was a really interesting comparison. It was much more in depth than other comparisons that tend to just list feature differences and generalised opinions about them.

[RahulKumar-rktf]

I really wanted to look into the code base. It will be really great if you can share the repository link.

[lunedefroid]

Laravel has a lot of magic, same as symphony. I prefer having code that does stuff. I prefer when validation is done in code rather than in yaml or annotations(like in symphony).

Laravel is too opinionated for my taste, but it is still a good solution

[cristianbilu]

Biggest deal-breaker for me is that symfony uses .yaml configuration by default.

Not only .yaml is dogshit, the fact that symfony config files are minimal and all the defaults happen behind the scenes makes reading the configuration documentation required, not opional, compare to laravel where all the possible keys and default values are defined in all of the config files alongside comments for descriptions.