simplicity

Practice 2

Frameworks: Read the Ingredients

These days, I’d guess a majority of projects run inside some kind of framework. That’s good: frameworks handle the low-level details and let you get on with writing application-level code. Frameworks should make your code simpler. Sometimes, they do.

But other times, tying your codebase to a framework is like jumping on a runaway train—you move fast, but it’s scary and there’s likely to be a crash at some point.

Why am I so cynical?

Come Into My Parlor

A framework envelops your application code; it’s in charge, and your code provides callbacks and hooks for it to call. When you need to get something done, you call out to the framework.

Once you’ve committed to a framework, you’re not going to be able ...