Framework

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Often described as a « working scaffold », a framework is a development skeleton paired with a toolbox.

Always tied to a language, frameworks are often built by open-source communities. Each framework provides self-contained components that make application development easier by imposing a structure and a working discipline.

Examples of well-known frameworks:
- Symfony, Laravel and Zend for PHP
- Spring and Spark for Java
- Django, Pyramid or Flask for Python
- React and VueJS for JavaScript
- Rails (RubyOnRails) for Ruby

Related terms

Django
Django is an open-source web framework written in Python.
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Java
Java is an object-oriented programming language created by James Gosling and Patrick Naughton, then employees of Sun Microsystems.
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JavaScript
JavaScript was created in 1995 by Brendan Eich and embedded in the Netscape Navigator browser.
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Laravel
Laravel is an open-source web framework written in PHP, following the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and fully built in object-oriented programming.
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PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is an open-source programming language used primarily to produce dynamic web pages through an HTTP server.
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Python
Python is a programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
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