Ruby on Rails vs Django vs Laravel

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Ruby on Rails, Django, and Laravel are the three most popular opinionated web frameworks, each bringing convention-over-configuration philosophies to their respective languages. Rails pioneered this approach and remains productive for startups shipping fast. Django brings Python's data science ecosystem and strong admin interface. Laravel has modernized PHP development with elegant syntax and a rich ecosystem of first-party tools for deployment, queues, and real-time features.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby
language
Convention over configuration
philosophy
Active Record
orm
Via gems (Administrate, ActiveAdmin)
admin interface
Solid Queue, Action Cable
async support
Heroku, Render, Kamal, Docker
deployment

Django

Python
language
Batteries included, explicit
philosophy
Django ORM
orm
Built-in django.contrib.admin
admin interface
Native async views, Channels
async support
Heroku, Render, Gunicorn, Docker
deployment

Laravel

PHP
language
Elegant syntax, developer happiness
philosophy
Eloquent
orm
Via Nova ($199) or Filament (free)
admin interface
Queues, Broadcasting, Reverb
async support
Forge, Vapor, Docker
deployment

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