DEV Community: Abdul Bari Buriro

Don't Use Frameworks (if you are a junior)

Abdul Bari Buriro — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:37:07 +0000

When I started programming, I was spending most of my time on:

Debugging
Logic building
Language basics

I hated it.

Because my thinking was, if AI can write code, learning these things felt irrelevant — to be honest.

I felt like I was being left behind in the race of development, as people at my level were exploring trending frameworks like Node.js, Vue, Laravel, etc.

But now I realize I did the right thing.

These things were building my foundation, which is very important for understanding complex ideas later. And most importantly, you learn problem-solving — that's the most valuable skill.

Learning frameworks while ignoring these fundamentals can be confusing. Most frameworks have complicated structures for beginners, which can make things confusing and limit the development of raw logic that actually helps you learn these frameworks easily.

Signing off...

— Buriro

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Abdul Bari, a backend developer from Pakistan 🇵🇰. I’m excited to be here on DEV.to and looking forward to sharing my journey, lessons learned, projects, and everything I discover along the way as a developer. Let’s connect, learn,

Abdul Bari Buriro — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:06:56 +0000

how die() helps you in debugging (PHP)

Abdul Bari Buriro — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:03:21 +0000

HOW die() HELPED ME IN DEBUGGING

As a beginner PHP developer I used to struggle a lot in debugging specially when projects are large and with legacy code, then one of my senior advised to use die(), at first I was surprised as we use die() for stopping script completely not something that comes under debugging rule, as per my knowledge.

BUT....

It turned out to be life saving, it lets you know exactly where you are on the code, and what values you want to check (EXTREMELY HELPFUL IN BACKEND) even you can die the query in the die() (example: die("SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE id = $id")). I got better at it; however this should be not used in live code to avoid any server related issues.

That’s all for now.

Signing off....

Buriro