Yii2 ... Yii3 ... or Laravel? - laravel

Question

I’ve been using Yii since version 1 … I’ve done lots of projects (i’d say about 50). I know Yii.
But I am being disappointed.
Yii was glorious and wonderful in 2014-2017, but after 2018 I’m not seeing same activity.
Forums are useless, old, inactive … there’s not more Yii2 extensions or modules. Everything is “old”, unfinished, discontinued …
Now I’m facing changes in my life as coder, and I was wondering whether to wait for Yii3 (because it will be a revolution), or to switch to Laravel.
Sincerely… what do you think if this “Yii environment” situation ?
Please, I would like comments from people who really know both environments, not only Laravel lovers.
Can you anyone tell me a WORKING and UPDATED extension
for social networks that works PERFECTLY ?
yii2-usuario was the best … WAS … linkedin works sometimes, facebook are not updated, and there’s no newer social since 2016
can you tell me other for datatables ?
nullref has awful support since it’s everything rewritten in Javascript so you can’t access properly relations and subrelations of models
for payments (stripe compatible for example) ?
for…
and so on…
These just last 3 examples has beautiful, crazy updated and reviewed plugins in Laravel, for example. Or even in NodeJS.
2amigos and kartiv were two perfect partners for Yii2 core … but they are not being continued … so they are pretty old
Anytime I search for any “extension” in github, all projects are 4 years ago (the newest!).
By the way … Yii3 started in 2019 … 60% done so far … and can’t be used yet for real working projects in live. So … waiting 2 years more with this so empty market of extensions ?
Let’s be clear, my problem with Yii is NOT the core (Thank you Sam and others for your infinite work!), but the community, extensions made (and/or updated) and “movement” of the ecosystem.
I know I can code myself (i’ve done lots of extensions), but it’s easy as a coder when you have good repositories with pretty new extensions and solutions, and a very active community behind. This forum has about 150 posts this year. Laravel (for example, 150 posts represents just the last 4 days). Have you notice tons of posts here with 0 replies ?
Also, Yii coders was easy to find in 2015 … now it’s 1 out of 100 maybe.
Let’s assume Yii environment has decreased drastically in the last 4 years.

Answer 1

I would suggest to move to laravel.
As yii and laravel uses almost similar behavior on basic level
MVC, Based on symphony, ORM
I honestly think you'll easily grap what laravel is offering.
Plus, laravel is upgrading day by day.

Answer 2

The answer to your question lies in your question .
Big community, Wonderful documentation, Enjoyable coding, Lot of feature and package, Popularity and ... all of them can describe Laravel.
Do not doubt and take a deep dive.

Answer 3

If you worked with Yii2, you should definitely use Yii3.
I'm using it for minor projects and I'm learning a lot.
The advantages are the same as always
Very fast (surely faster than Laravel)
Very complete
Very customizable
Very standard and modern (A bit difficult to start to understand it)
I recommend you to start with the demo application (it's a blog) or the base application (blank)

Answer 4

What's with the packages?
That on Yii2 you can only use Yii2 - compatible packages? take any package and use it, use the dependency injection container.
If we talk about the fact that the framework is outdated, then yes there is such ...
I myself wrote more than a dozen projects on Yii2.
I didn't really like Larevel, my opinion.
But the symphony, on the contrary, I was very pleased with.