Real programmers don’t use frameworks

Graeme Ing
3 min readMar 21, 2023
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Cool your jets! This article isn’t suggesting we abolish frameworks. They are a critical part of modern software engineering. To not use them would require us to repeat the same task multiple times, creating complex code from scratch.

Leveraging a framework, such as Spring or React, lets us overlook boilerplate, configuration and all the fundamentals of a contemporary app or server. They provide…

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Graeme Ing

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