Framework
A software framework is a reusable structure that provides components, conventions, services, or extension points for building applications or other software systems.
Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch)
A software framework that provides reusable structure and mechanisms for building the user-facing portion of web applications.
- How it is used
- Provides reusable structure for interactive web views while taking responsibility for running application code at appropriate triggers.
- How deep it goes
- Builds a small working framework incrementally, beginning with full DOM replacement and planning more selective reconciliation rather than production-level completeness.
- Examples
- Uses a button counter and a TODO application to show state-driven rendering and the move away from manual DOM manipulation.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch as a small JavaScript framework, then apply it to an interactive TODO application.
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React in Depth
A software framework written for or centered on JavaScript that structures frontend application development.
- How it is used
- Structures fullstack React websites around server-rendered pages, URL routes, and server-loaded data.
- How deep it goes
- Works through route-file and data-loading implementations in two frameworks, while leaving their broader APIs to their documentation.
- Examples
- Uses weather-app country and city routes and a category page loaded through Next.js or Remix.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch: create server-rendered React routes that load page data using Next.js or Remix.
Think Like a CTO
A reusable software foundation that provides conventions and supporting components for building applications or automation systems.
- How it is used
- Guides CTOs through technology selection, modernization decisions, hiring implications, and long-term stack planning.
- How deep it goes
- Defines framework scope, explains migration consequences, and supplies selection criteria, but stops short of implementation detail.
- Examples
- Uses Java Enterprise Standard, Spring, ReactJS, and Express.js to illustrate framework relationships with Java, JavaScript, and Node.js.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate frameworks against maturity, sponsorship, community, educational adoption, hiring availability, and switching costs.
Machine Learning System Design
Software that provides reusable infrastructure for configuring and executing machine-learning model training.
- How it is used
- Separates research flexibility from production-serving performance when designing machine-learning training and inference pipelines.
- How deep it goes
- Compares framework strategies, decoupling, compilation, conversion, runtime support, and optimization without detailing implementation procedures.
- Examples
- Uses Pandas, scikit-learn, Keras, Torch 2.0, ONNX, and ONNX Runtime as contrasting framework and ecosystem examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate framework architectures by balancing research convenience, inference performance, portability, and long-term operational independence.
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Web Components in Action
A software framework is a reusable application structure that provides conventions, abstractions, and extension points for development.
- How it is used
- Guides project decisions between framework-based application development and standards-based Web Components.
- How deep it goes
- Compares framework responsibilities and trade-offs but stops short of implementing a particular framework.
- Examples
- Uses Redux and React, plus deprecated Object.observe, to illustrate interchangeable libraries and rejected native data binding.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate framework and no-framework options against project needs and recognize their standards-based underpinnings.
Related concepts
- Flaskincludes · Flask is a lightweight Python web framework based on WSGI for building web applications and services.
- Djangoincludes · Django is an open-source Python web framework providing integrated components for developing structured, database-backed web applications and services.
- Axumincludes · Axum is a Rust web framework for building asynchronous HTTP services with routing, request extraction, and handler execution.
- Streamlitincludes · Streamlit is an open-source Python framework for building interactive web applications, particularly for data and machine-learning applications.
- FastAPIincludes · FastAPI is a Python web framework for building APIs, with type-annotation-based request handling, validation, and automatic OpenAPI documentation.
- librarykind of · A software library is a reusable collection of code or components that other programs can incorporate or invoke to provide functionality.
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