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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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_heimdall ◴[14 Oct 24 23:33 UTC] No.41843339[source]▶
React hasn't been a library since they added hooks.

Hooks themselves are just a solution to async code, but the implication was that react was no longer a state-based UI rendering library and became a full blown frontend framework.

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threetonesun ◴[15 Oct 24 00:25 UTC] No.41843692[source]▶
Hard to call something a full blown front end framework when it doesn’t have routing.
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1. _heimdall ◴[15 Oct 24 02:15 UTC] No.41844277[source]▶
Routing is only important for a single page applications. Frontend frameworks are applicable to normal websites as well, they don't have to be SPAs with routing, caching, etc.