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What are Development Frameworks?
Development frameworks are code libraries and development tools that streamline the development process for developers that build applications. Development frameworks simplify the process of programming in different languages. There are a variety of different types of development frameworks including web development frameworks, mobile app development frameworks, frontend and backend frameworks, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Development Frameworks currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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getcss
getcss
getcss - An intuitive CSS framework. Create responsive web apps with getcss. It's simple, easy to use, free, and open source. Features: * Accelerate your development - Write less, get more * Zero dependencies * Latest technologies - Supports latest browsers, HTML5, CSS3 * Easy to learn, easy to use - as easy as 1-2-3 * Free and Open Source - Develop for yourself or your client * Responsive User Interface - Developed with mobile first approach * Media queries and Flexbox based.Starting Price: Free -
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Flutter
Google
Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Paint your app to life in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload. Use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes. Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. Layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs. Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart's native compilers. Flutter's hot reload helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bugs faster. Experience sub-second reload times without losing state on emulators, simulators, and hardware. -
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Ionic
Drifty
The Ionic Platform allows you to bring your apps to market faster with an integrated app platform built on the leading cross-platform mobile SDK. Build, secure, and deliver new mobile apps—and transform existing ones—across iOS, Android, and Web platforms from a single codebase. Full scalability—Grow from prototype to production to enterprise-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance. Better apps, everywhere—Slash your development time and costs with a platform that lets you write once and deploy anywhere—iOS, Android, and Web. The core of the Ionic development experience is Ionic Capacitor, a cross platform native runtime that runs equally well on native iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as any web browser. The big difference is that, unlike traditional native development or cross-platform approaches, the UI of a Capacitor app runs primarily in the browser.Starting Price: Free -
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React Native
Meta
React Native combines the best parts of native development with React, a best-in-class JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Use a little—or a lot. You can use React Native today in your existing Android and iOS projects or you can create a whole new app from scratch. React primitives render to native platform UI, meaning your app uses the same native platform APIs other apps do. Many platforms, one React. Create platform-specific versions of components so a single codebase can share code across platforms. With React Native, one team can maintain two platforms and share a common technology—React. React Native lets you create truly native apps and doesn't compromise your users' experiences. It provides a core set of platform agnostic native components like View, Text, and Image that map directly to the platform’s native UI building blocks.Starting Price: Free -
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Kendo UI
Progress Software
Kendo UI is the ultimate collection of JavaScript UI components with libraries for jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue. Quickly build eye-catching, high-performance, responsive web applications—regardless of your JavaScript framework choice. Easily add advanced JavaScript components into your existing or new designs. Kendo UI’s hundreds of components handle everything you need to satisfy your users’ requirements. Add advanced components such as data grids, charts, schedulers, and calendars with just a few lines of code. Each is crafted for performance and customizability. Switching frameworks and starting new projects won’t require a new license or a big learning curve. Everything is included and up-to-date, APIs are consistent and theming is easy. Our QA process coupled with world-class support teams and a large user community means that our components will always work the way they’re supposed to—guaranteed.Starting Price: $899 -
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React
React
React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes. Declarative views make your code more predictable and easier to debug. Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs. Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM. We don’t make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new features in React without rewriting existing code. React components implement a render() method that takes input data and returns what to display. This example uses an XML-like syntax called JSX. Input data that is passed into the component can be accessed by render() via this.props.Starting Price: Free -
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Jekyll
Jekyll
No more databases, comment moderation, or pesky updates to install, just your content. Markdown, Liquid, HTML & CSS go in. Static sites come out ready for deployment. Permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all first-class citizens here. Sick of dealing with hosting companies? GitHub Pages are powered by Jekyll, so you can easily deploy your site using GitHub for free, custom domain name and all. Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more. The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your terminal. Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production. To change Jekyll’s default build behavior have a look through the configuration options. -
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Gatsby
Gatsby
Gatsby is an open-source, modern website framework that builds performance into every site by leveraging the latest web technologies such as React and GraphQL. Create blazing-fast apps and websites without needing to become a performance expert. Preview is like a private playground for developers, designers, and content creators. It provides a shareable temporary URL for viewing changes immediately and in context—so you can make sure that new header plays nicely with the rest of the page before hitting “publish.” Gatsby Builds is the fastest continuous deployment solution for Gatsby sites and apps—up to 20x faster standard builds times than other solutions, and now up to 1000x faster with Incremental Builds (beta). Use automated Lighthouse performance checks and deploy previews to fix errors before they’re published. Build with Gatsby and deploy to your favorite CDN.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Onsen UI
Onsen UI
Experience streamlined development with zero-time setup, using the technologies you already know and love - Javascript, HTML and CSS. Worried that PhoneGap / Cordova apps are slow? Fear not! All animations in Onsen UI have been tuned and optimized to perform well on a wide range of devices. We take great care to ensure that apps made using Onsen UI feel smooth even on lower end devices. Onsen UI is easy to learn while being a powerful tool to create complex mobile apps. We have lots of learning resources including official documentation, an interactive tutorial and a community forum where your questions get answered. A rich variety of UI components specially designed for mobile apps. Onsen UI provides tabs, side menu, stack navigation and tons of other components such as lists and forms.Starting Price: Free -
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.NET MAUI
Microsoft
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a framework for building modern, multi-platform, natively compiled iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps using C# and XAML in a single codebase. .NET MAUI uses the latest, modern technologies for building native apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows abstracting them into one common framework built on .NET 6. Native apps look and feel like the operating system on which they belong by default and layouts are fully adapted to each device automatically with no additional code. Platform APIs are available directly from C# to access over 60 platform features from a single cross-platform API including access to things like isolated storage, sensors, geolocation, camera, and a whole lot more with no compromises.Starting Price: Free -
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Webix
Webix
JavaScript UI library and framework for speeding up web development. JS Framework for cross-platform web Apps development 102 UI widgets and feature-rich CSS / HTML5 JavaScript controls. Save at least 3000+ development hours by using ready-made widgets and UI controls. Develop Web UI 30% faster. We have accumulated the best design ideas. We have meticulously considered UX of each Webix component for five conceptual designs. Our support service specialists know everything about our library and can help you solve any problem. We also have an official support forum where you can discuss issues with our developers. By using Webix JS framework you receive an elegant and lightweight code based on object-oriented programming concepts. Associate your project with jQuery JavaScript library, MVC frameworks AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Backbone.js, third party UI extensions. -
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Django
Django
Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. Django was designed to help developers take applications from concept to completion as quickly as possible. Django takes security seriously and helps developers avoid many common security mistakes. Some of the busiest sites on the web leverage Django’s ability to quickly and flexibly scale. Django includes dozens of extras you can use to handle common web development tasks. Django takes care of user authentication, content administration, site maps, RSS feeds, and many more tasks — right out of the box.Starting Price: Free -
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Angular
Angular
Learn one way to build applications with Angular and reuse your code and abilities to build apps for any deployment target. For web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop. Achieve the maximum speed possible on the Web Platform today, and take it further, via Web Workers and server-side rendering. Angular puts you in control over scalability. Meet huge data requirements by building data models on RxJS, Immutable.js or another push-model. Build features quickly with simple, declarative templates. Extend the template language with your own components and use a wide array of existing components. Get immediate Angular-specific help and feedback with nearly every IDE and editor. All this comes together so you can focus on building amazing apps rather than trying to make the code work. From prototype through global deployment, Angular delivers the productivity and scalable infrastructure that supports Google's largest applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins. Jump right into building with Bootstrap, use the CDN, install it via the package manager, or download the source code. Bootstrap utilizes Sass for modular and customizable architecture. Import only the components you need, enable global options like gradients and shadows and write your own CSS with our variables, maps, functions, and mixins. Import one stylesheet and you're off to the races with every feature of our CSS. The easiest way to customize Bootstrap, include only the CSS you need. Bootstrap 5 is evolving with each release to better utilize CSS variables for global theme styles, individual components, and even utilities. We provide dozens of variables for colors, font styles, and more for use anywhere.Starting Price: Free -
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Titanium SDK
Titanium SDK
Write in JavaScript, and run natively everywhere. Titanium lets you develop cross-platform native mobile applications and build great mobile experiences using JavaScript. Access your application's hundreds of native UI and non-visual components (such as networks and media APIs). Easily include third-party modules in your apps with Titanium's wide selection of community modules and premium support integrations. The Titanium SDK helps you build native cross-platform mobile applications using JavaScript and the Titanium API, which abstracts the native APIs of the mobile platforms. Titanium empowers you to create immersive, full-featured applications, featuring over 80% code reuse across mobile apps. TiDev licenses Titanium under the OSI-approved Apache Public License (Version 2) and is free for personal and commercial use. Create a basic UI, manage event handling and learn about animations, gestures, and orientation modes.Starting Price: Free -
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jQuery
jQuery
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. If you're new to jQuery. Return a collection of matched elements either found in the DOM based on passed argument(s) or created by passing an HTML string. All the aspects of the API that were deprecated in the corresponding version of jQuery. These methods get and set DOM attributes of elements.Starting Price: Free -
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Flask
Flask
Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework. It is designed to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to complex applications. It began as a simple wrapper around Werkzeug and Jinja and has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks. Flask offers suggestions, but doesn't enforce any dependencies or project layout. It is up to the developer to choose the tools and libraries they want to use. There are many extensions provided by the community that make adding new functionality easy.Starting Price: Free -
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Svelte
Svelte
Svelte is a radical new approach to building user interfaces. Whereas traditional frameworks like React and Vue do the bulk of their work in the browser, Svelte shifts that work into a compile step that happens when you build your app. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM diffing, Svelte writes code that surgically updates the DOM when the state of your app changes. We're proud that Svelte was recently voted the most loved web framework with the most satisfied developers in a pair of industry surveys. We think you'll love it too. Read the introductory blog post to learn more. Svelte is a tool for building fast web applications. It is similar to JavaScript frameworks such as React and Vue, which share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. But there's a crucial difference: Svelte converts your app into ideal JavaScript at build time, rather than interpreting your application code at run time.Starting Price: Free -
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Next.js
Vercel
Next.js gives you the best developer experience with all the features you need for production: hybrid static & server rendering, TypeScript support, smart bundling, route pre-fetching, and more. The interactive course with quizzes will guide you through everything you need to know to use Next.js. Next.js has built-in support for internationalized (i18n) routing since v10.0.0. You can provide a list of locales, the default locale, and domain-specific locales and Next.js will automatically handle the routing.Starting Price: Free -
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Mithril.js
Mithril.js
Mithril.js is a modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (< 10kb gzip), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box. Mithril.js is used by companies like Vimeo and Nike, and open source platforms like Lichess. If you are an experienced developer and want to know how Mithril.js compares to other frameworks, see the framework comparison page. An easy way to try out Mithril.js is to include it from a CDN and follow this tutorial. It'll cover the majority of the API surface (including routing and XHR) but it'll only take 10 minutes. You can now update the label of the button by clicking the button. Since we used m.mount, you don't need to manually call m.render to apply the changes in the count variable to the HTML; Mithril.js does it for you.Starting Price: Free -
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Jest
Jest
Jest aims to work out of the box, config free, on most JavaScript projects. Make tests which keep track of large objects with ease. Snapshots live either alongside your tests, or embedded inline. Tests are parallelized by running them in their own processes to maximize performance. Tests are parallelized by running them in their own processes to maximize performance. By ensuring your tests have unique global state, Jest can reliably run tests in parallel. To make things quick, Jest runs previously failed tests first and re-organizes runs based on how long test files take. By ensuring your tests have unique global state, Jest can reliably run tests in parallel. To make things quick, Jest runs previously failed tests first and re-organizes runs based on how long test files take. Jest uses a custom resolver for imports in your tests, making it simple to mock any object outside of your test’s scope. -
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Nuxt
NuxtLabs
Build your next Vue.js application with confidence using NuxtJS. An open source framework making web development simple and powerful. Nuxt is based on a powerful modular architecture. You can choose from more than 50 modules to make your development faster and easier. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to get PWA benefits, add Google Analytics to your page or generate a sitemap. With Nuxt.js, your application will be optimized out of the box. We do our best to build performant applications by utilizing Vue.js and Node.js best practices. To squeeze every unnecessary bit out of your app Nuxt includes a bundle analyzer and lots of opportunities to fine-tune your app. Our main focus is the Developer Experience. We love Nuxt.js and continuously improve the framework so you love it too! Expect appealing solutions, descriptive error messages, powerful defaults and detailed documentation. -
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Vue.js
Vue.js
Builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript with intuitive API and world-class documentation. Truly reactive, compiler-optimized rendering system that rarely requires manual optimization. A rich, incrementally adoptable ecosystem that scales between a library and a full-featured framework. Vue is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and provides a declarative and component-based programming model that helps you efficiently develop user interfaces, be it simple or complex. Vue extends standard HTML with a template syntax that allows us to declaratively describe HTML output based on JavaScript state. Vue automatically tracks JavaScript state changes and efficiently updates the DOM when changes happen. Vue is a framework and ecosystem that covers most of the common features needed in frontend development. -
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Streamlit
Streamlit
Streamlit. The fastest way to build and share data apps. Turn data scripts into sharable web apps in minutes. All in Python. All for free. No front-end experience required. Streamlit combines three simple ideas. Embrace Python scripting. Build an app in a few lines of code with our magically simple API. Then see it automatically update as you save the source file. Weave in interaction. Adding a widget is the same as declaring a variable. No need to write a backend, define routes, handle HTTP requests, etc. Deploy instantly. Use Streamlit’s sharing platform to effortlessly share, manage, and collaborate on your apps. A minimal framework for powerful apps. Face-GAN explorer. App that uses Shaobo Guan’s TL-GAN project from Insight Data Science, TensorFlow, and NVIDIA's PG-GAN to generate faces that match selected attributes. Real time object detection. An image browser for the Udacity self-driving-car dataset with real-time object detection. -
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ADO.NET Data Providers
Devart
dotConnect is an enhanced data connectivity solution built over ADO.NET architecture and a development framework with a number of innovative technologies. dotConnect includes high-performance data providers for the major databases and popular cloud applications and offers a complete solution for developing data-related applications and web sites. dotConnect can be used in all areas of modern application development: web applications and services, windows forms applications, mobile and enterprise development. dotConnect providers support such ORMs as Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, NHibernate and LinqConnect. The providers come bundled with their own visual designer for ORM models - Entity Developer. dotConnect ADO.NET providers for databases and cloud applications, such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM, Zoho CRM, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, MailChimp, etc.Starting Price: $99.95/one-time/user -
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SymfonyInsight
Symfony
We strive to make your team progress with the best tools and practices. We offer the widest range of training plans on PHP and Symfony, using different support methods. The creators of Symfony offer a large scope of intelligent solutions to help your business soar during each period of your web project development. Innovative pre-packaged or custom-made services to get you or your teams up to speed. Our development teams create your PHP / Symfony applications in compliance with the state of the art and the latest best practices of the framework. In answer to your needs, we validate complementary profiles, Front-end and/or Back-End, via our 50+ international partners network, mastering the latest web development tools and methods.Starting Price: €19 per month -
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Express
OpenJS Foundation
Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. With a myriad of HTTP utility methods and middleware at your disposal, creating a robust API is quick and easy. Express provides a thin layer of fundamental web application features, without obscuring Node.js features that you know and love. Express has no notion of a database. This concept is left up to third-party Node modules, allowing you to interface with nearly any database. In Express, 404 responses are not the result of an error, so the error-handler middleware will not capture them. This behavior is because a 404 response simply indicates the absence of additional work to do; in other words, Express has executed all middleware functions and routes, and found that none of them responded.Starting Price: Free -
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Solid
SolidJS
Solid stands on the shoulders of giants, particularly in React and Knockout. If you've developed using React Hooks, Solid will come naturally to you. In fact, more natural, since the Solid model is simpler, without the rules of the Hooks. Each component is executed once and it is the Hooks and bindings that are executed as many times as the dependencies are updated. Solid follows the same philosophy as React with one-way data flow, read/write segregation, and immutable interfaces. At the same time, it has a completely different implementation by dispensing with the Virtual DOM.Starting Price: Free -
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Sencha Ext JS
Sencha
Sencha Ext JS is a comprehensive JavaScript application framework for building feature-rich, cross-browser-compatible web and mobile applications. It includes a library with 140+ high-performance customizable components, a set of tools and a powerful UI Framework. Key Features Rich UI Components – Includes a variety of pre-built UI elements such as grids and trees, menus and toolbars, forms and buttons, etc. Cross-platform compatibility - Supports major desktop and mobile web browsers including IE Firefox Chrome Safari and Opera. Data Packages – Includes data components to interact with various data sources including JSON, XML and database connections. Theming and Skinning - Allow easy skinning and theming of the UI with CSS. Development Tools - Includes an extensive set of development tools including a visual designer and debugger. Large Community - Has an active and large community of developers who provide support, extensions, etc.Starting Price: $1,295 one-time payment -
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Axon Framework
AxonIQ
Purpose-built and open source, Axon Framework provides the building blocks for modern applications using event-driven architecture (EDA) powered by domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and command query responsibility separation (CQRS). Our proven technology allows your team to evolve your application to reach business demands without unnecessary complexity.Starting Price: FREE
Development Frameworks Guide
Development frameworks are tools used by software developers to assist in the development of computer applications. They provide a series of components, libraries, and tools that allow developers to quickly and easily create applications that adhere to standard design principles.
Frameworks can be used for everything from web-based applications and server-side scripting languages to mobile apps and gaming engines. Some popular frameworks include ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, .NET Core, Laravel, Spring Framework, Django and Ruby on Rails.
At the most basic level, development frameworks give developers a starting point for their projects by providing a standardized structure for code organization and management. This includes features like routing (the ability to navigate between pages), module loading (the ability to load different parts of an application at runtime), templating (the ability to render HTML content from a data source) and more. By taking advantage of these features, developers can write less code while still achieving complex results.
In addition to providing the aforementioned components, development frameworks also tend to offer guidance around architectural decisions such as security protocols or deployment strategies. This allows developers to quickly implement industry best practices without having to do extensive research or experimentation on their own.
Finally, many development frameworks come with their own libraries of pre-written pieces of code that can be reused in new projects – eliminating the need for developers to start from scratch every time they undertake a new project. Using these libraries saves time and can also help ensure that all projects adhere to certain quality standards; this is especially beneficial when working within teams where it's important that everyone follows the same conventions for coding style and syntax rules.
In summary; development frameworks provide developers with a starting point for their projects by providing features like routing and module loading along with guidance around architectural decisions such as security protocols or deployment strategies which ultimately saves time during the design process while helping maintain quality standards across teams or organizations.
What Features Do Development Frameworks Provide?
- Modeling: Development frameworks provide a pre-defined structure for your application, which can simplify the development process by providing an easy-to-follow model. This often includes objects and classes that are designed to represent real-world concepts, making it easier to build an application from scratch or when making changes to an existing application.
- Code Generation: Frameworks can also provide automatic code generation for common programming tasks such as creating webpages or accessing data from databases. This can save developers time when building complex applications because it eliminates the need to write repetitive code from scratch.
- Database Integration: Frameworks often include features that make it easier for developers to access data stored in a database, allowing them to quickly perform queries and other operations without having to manually write additional SQL code.
- Security Features: Many frameworks also have built-in security features such as authentication and authorization tools that reduce the risk of malicious users gaining access to sensitive information or damaging applications.
- Scalability: Development frameworks are designed with scalability in mind, allowing developers to easily extend their applications as their user base grows or new requirements arise. This makes development more efficient since there is no need to rework the entire code base every time additional functionality is needed.
- Debugging Tools: Frameworks usually ship with debugging tools that help developers quickly identify and fix errors during the development process without having to go through line after line of code manually searching for bugs.
Types of Development Frameworks
- Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework: A Model-View-Controller development framework separates an application’s data, business logic, and user interface so that each individual component can be modified independently. This is the most commonly used development framework due to its versatility and scalability.
- Component-Based Development: Component-based development focuses on the reuse of existing software components rather than building completely new components for every project. This approach helps reduce development time and cost as it reduces the need for teams to come up with entirely new solutions for each problem they encounter.
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOA helps developers design distributed systems by allowing them to build applications from pre-built services available over a network. Services are self-contained units that can be invoked remotely and reused across applications.
- Event Driven Architecture: An event driven architecture allows different sections of an application to communicate with each other in real time by triggering events when certain actions are taken. This asynchronous communication helps ensure that applications respond quickly and reliably to user inputs.
- Microservices: Microservices allow developers to create modular architectures that separate an application into small, discrete pieces which can be developed, tested, deployed, and scaled independently from one another. This makes developing distributed systems much simpler since it allows teams to focus on writing code tailored specifically for each microservice instead of dealing with large monolithic systems where changes could potentially break other components of the system.
Trends Related to Development Frameworks
- Popularity of JavaScript Frameworks: JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to make web development easier and faster. These frameworks provide an organized structure for developers, allowing them to build powerful web applications quickly and efficiently. Popular frameworks include React, Angular, and Vue.
- Rise of Low Code Development Platforms: Low code development platforms are now being used more and more by developers, as they allow them to quickly develop applications with minimal coding. These platforms provide a visual interface that allows developers to assemble existing components together to quickly create powerful applications. Popular low code development platforms include Appian, Mendix, and OutSystems.
- Emergence of Microservices Architecture: Microservices architecture is becoming a popular choice for developers due to its scalability and flexibility. This type of architecture consists of small services that each perform a single task, which makes it easier for developers to manage the codebase of their applications. Popular microservices frameworks include Spring Boot, Node.js, and Docker.
- Adoption of Cloud Technologies: Cloud technologies are now being adopted by many developers as they allow them to access their data from any location and scale their applications as needed. Popular cloud technologies include AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
- Growth in AI/ML Frameworks: AI/ML frameworks are gaining popularity as they allow developers to easily apply machine learning models to their projects without having to write complicated algorithms themselves. Popular AI/ML frameworks include TensorFlow, Keras, and Scikit-learn.
Advantages of Development Frameworks
- Increased Productivity: Development frameworks help developers build applications faster by providing pre-built components and libraries. This saves time on writing code from scratch, allowing developers to focus more on the functionality of the application.
- Improved Maintainability: By keeping all the code in a structured and organized manner, development frameworks make it easier to maintain and troubleshoot applications over time. This makes it simpler to quickly identify bugs or errors and make changes to resolve them quickly.
- Reduced Cost: Frameworks can help reduce the cost of developing software by allowing developers to reuse existing code for new projects, reducing development time and effort required. This eliminates much of the cost associated with starting from scratch each time an application needs to be built.
- Security: Many development frameworks provide built-in security features that can protect applications against malicious attack or data leakage. This makes applications more secure and reduces the risk of exposing confidential information or crashing due to an attack.
- Reusability: Frameworks encourage developers to adopt a modular approach when building their applications, which means they can reuse components across different projects easily. This speeds up the entire process while ensuring consistency between projects as well as promoting good practices such as DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).
How to Select the Best Development Framework
- Identify Your Development Needs: First, analyze your development needs and goals in order to identify which frameworks will best meet them. What type of application do you need to develop? What language is it being written in? What platform does it need to run on? Once you’ve identified these details, you can begin researching potential frameworks that are suitable for your project.
- Research Popular Frameworks: Read up on popular frameworks that fit your development needs, such as Angular or React for JavaScript-based projects and Ruby on Rails or Django for web applications written in Python. Explore their features, requirements, any associated costs, and ease of use in order to determine if they’re the right choice for your project.
- Compare and Contrast: Make sure you compare more than one framework before making a decision—this way you can get a better idea of the differences between them and how each might work for your project. Also, consider testing out different options by building an example app with each one so you can see which works best based on your own experience with it.
- Get Feedback: Finally, don’t forget to consult other developers who have worked with various frameworks before—they may be able to provide valuable insights into what would work best given the scope of your project’s requirements.
Types of Users that Use Development Frameworks
- Front-end Developers: Developers who use frameworks to develop the visual elements of a website or application, such as its layout and design.
- Back-end Developers: Developers who use frameworks to create and maintain the underlying logic and web services that power a website or application.
- Mobile App Developers: Developers who use frameworks to create mobile applications for phones and tablets.
- Web Application Developers: Developers who use frameworks to build interactive websites and web applications.
- Enterprise Software Engineers: Engineers responsible for developing enterprise software solutions, such as ERP systems, using development frameworks.
- Database Administrators: Professionals in charge of ensuring the optimal performance of databases used with development frameworks.
- DevOps Specialists: Professionals responsible for automating software deployment processes using development frameworks.
- Data Scientists: Professionals using development frameworks to explore large datasets, identify patterns, and build machine learning models.
Development Frameworks Cost
The cost of development frameworks can vary significantly depending on a variety of factors. Generally, when looking at the cost of different options, the main factors to take into consideration are the complexity and scope of the project, as well as any additional features or services that may be required.
For small projects with basic features and functions, some frameworks are available for free or for minimal costs. However, for larger projects with more complex requirements, robust commercial frameworks can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on how comprehensive they are.
In addition to the upfront cost of a framework, there may also be related expenses such as hosting fees, maintenance costs and technical support charges. Certain frameworks may also require licenses for each developer working on the project or an annual fee in order to access updates and new features. It’s important to factor in all these additional costs when calculating the total expense associated with a particular framework.
Finally, if you have developers with experience in certain specific programming languages or technologies, then it may be worth considering frameworks that are compatible with what they know best. Ultimately this could help save time and money by avoiding re-training costs associated with using unfamiliar toolsets.
What Do Development Frameworks Integrate With?
Software that can integrate with development frameworks includes content management systems, code editors, and issue tracking systems. Content management systems are programs used to help organize and store large amounts of frequently changing information in a structured fashion. This type of software is often integrated with development frameworks to ensure the website or application operates as expected. Code editors are pieces of software used while writing software code. They provide features such as syntax highlighting and version control, which can be used to write better code and integrate with development frameworks to allow for quicker coding processes. Issue tracking systems are also often implemented within development frameworks to log bugs and other errors that occur in the codebase during development or testing phases. These tools give developers visibility into any issues occurring within the system, allowing them to quickly identify and address any problems that arise.