Pro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratch: Building Production-Ready Web Apps Without a Framework

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A. LilleaasPro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratchhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9057-6_15

15. Choosing the Right Library

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

In this chapter, I’ll share some of my thoughts about libraries, how to compare libraries with frameworks, and some tools for choosing the right library. Usually, there’s more than one library available that you can choose from for doing the same task. So it’s useful to know how to pick the right one.

What’s a Library?

Our industry has no widely agreed-upon definition of the difference between a library and a framework. The distinction I use is

A library is something you call. A framework is something that calls ...