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Discussion on: Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

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Nick

I agree somewhat with your article. Sometimes frameworks are a little bit of overkill, specially on Javascript where you can do many things with Vanilla javascript instead of jQuery I specially dislike frameworks when you get an error that you have no idea why it's happening and it ends up being a framework error.

That being said... Frameworks are pieces of software that have a very active development cicle, where many developers have tested and fixed bugs in all its iterations, which is why they are 10 times more secure than any pieces of software you write from scratch, specially for beginners.

For example: One of your requirements is to build a backend protected by a login on PHP with social login and user roles. You can use Codeigniter, Lavarel or your choice of framework and create a secure robust backend or write everything from scratch, taking twice as long and leaving it very insecure and prone to your errors.