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Flow

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Hold

Flow is a PHP web application framework developed for the Neos project.

We used Flow in a couple of projects and decided to put it on hold for the following reasons:

  • slow during development and hard to debug because of its need to "compile" the application to integrate e.g. AOP
  • limited documentation and community
  • development of the framework is closely coupled to the progress of the Neos project

Although it could be that some of the above-mentioned aspects have improved in the past, we decided to use other PHP frameworks such as Symfony or other Languages (See Go; Play Framework; Spring Boot)