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Software Frameworks
Can save developers time, frustration
In broad terms, a software framework is a code library that is designed to facilitate software development. The idea is that all of the tedious, low-level details of creating a web application are already addressed in a reusable package. For a web developer, this means you can spend your time worrying about specific problems related to your application, and not the actual building of the code behind it. For example, a developer can quickly and easily access a database using a framework, rather than having to write all of the code required to accomplish this simple task. To get a better idea of how a framework can help, let's take a look at two notable web development frameworks — Ruby on Rails and Prototype.
Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a framework for creating web applications with the Ruby programming language. Developed by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004, Rails is designed to favor "convention over configuration," which translates to mean that Rails makes opinionated assumptions about things in order to spare developers from having to make these decisions. It also means that Rails provides all of the classes and methods required to create a web application, such as accessing a database and much more. A developer can then take this empty framework and build upon it to create his/her own web application, without having to be an expert in the Ruby language.
Prototype is a JavaScript library that can be considered a framework for creating JavaScript-based applications and user interfaces. Since JavaScript is a client-side scripting language (executed by the visitor's web browser) there are a host of issues that developers need to take into account. The Prototype library, available for free from Prototypejs.org, allows developers to create complex JavaScript interfaces without having to worry about browser compatibility issues and other tedious details of JavaScript development. Prototype stems from the Rails community, but as a standalone library can be easily used with any server-side scripting language.
In short, software frameworks can save developers time and heaps of frustration. Check these links to learn more:
Ruby: Rubyonrails.org
Python: Djangoproject.com
PHP: Cakephp.org
JavaScript: Prototypejs.org
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Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Comments:
Check also the new framework for Ruby: MERB (http://rubyforge.org/projects/merb). It's supposed to have better performance than RoR, and it compliments it, but havent tested it yet.
Posted by: Hugo Campos
Sunday, October 28, 2007
For those of you who are most familar with MVC and PHP, checkout a great php framework: www.zendframework.com
Posted by: rodlabs.com
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Cake has zero license information on their site. I downloaded the zip file to see the license and the file was corrupt. Come on developers, put some info on your site for people who haven't heard of your project.
Posted by: Jeez
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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