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

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I used to make fun of frameworks until my nightmare during my computer science final year project. I went against all advice to use laravel and other frameworks and being a fluent php javascript coder I decided to hard code a CMS from ground up. Meanwhile my other colleague who had an even more complex project than mine went with laravel and within a week he had completed a prototype. I presented my prototype in the third week and it took me over a month to finish my CMS and it was littered with msny bugs. I paid dearly for my stubbornness and since then I hv come to learn that clients only want a robust and working application. They don't care how u developed it. Also the faster you are with your working deliverables the more u gain a good reputation. I hv now adopted an attitude of learning a language then follow immediately by learning a popular framework of that language for rapid development. It has paid handsome dividends.