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Part of the benefit of monolithic frameworks is the third party tools built on top of it. If you choose libraries independently, you've avoided reinventing a fe
by natrius 17y ago
Part of the benefit of monolithic frameworks is the third party tools built on top of it. If you choose libraries independently, you've avoided reinventing a few wheels, but there is more functionality you could avoid reimplementing than just the basic database interaction, template system and request handling.
- Hexstream 17y agoThere's a bit of a paradox here: a monolithic framework gives you less choice because you can't use only a part of it without great pain, however you have ostensibly more choice of functionality from third-parties since there's a standard way to use it that's hard to diverge from. But if you're any NIH on the side, the framework-as-bunch-of-easily-integrated-libraries approach really makes more sense. It also lets you try a framework incrementally, therefore decreasing risk instead of committing to a behemoth framework prematurely.