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PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework

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attah_ ◴[14 Oct 24 18:50 UTC] No.41840608[source]▶
So let me get this straight... PayloadCMS is a framework, for Next.js which is a framework for the React framework.

Yo dawg, i heard you like frameworks!

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mzronek ◴[14 Oct 24 19:49 UTC] No.41841176[source]▶
A common misconception. React is a library.

These are examples for React frameworks: https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project#production...

Next.js is a React framework.

If Payload is a framework or not is debatable. I think it's more like a data layer around a database for a any js app and an Admin Panel (that uses Next.js now). It might be called a framework for your own Headless CMS, because it is code first. So you basically code the panel and the data structure yourself.

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vasergen ◴[14 Oct 24 20:08 UTC] No.41841381[source]▶
> React is a library

Can a library have compiler?)

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1. robertlagrant ◴[14 Oct 24 20:28 UTC] No.41841594[source]▶
That's an optional step for JSX cross-compilation. It's a language plugin; nothing really to do with frameworks or libraries.
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2. ◴[14 Oct 24 21:34 UTC] No.41842274[source]▶
3. tmtwhn ◴[14 Oct 24 23:39 UTC] No.41843393[source]▶
They're going further than jsx transpilation[1]

[1] https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler

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4. zdragnar ◴[15 Oct 24 15:22 UTC] No.41849546[source]▶
Nothing in that is actually doing what a compiler does above and beyond what babel, swc and esbuild are capable of.

What they've added is wrapping your code in more memoization functions, basically. All stuff that doesn't fundamentally transform the code, aside from inserting more `useMemo` and the like.

The JSX macro - which is itself already optional but everyone uses it - is just that, a handy macro with implementations available in every common bundler and transpiler out there.