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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. gloosx ◴[15 Oct 24 11:32 UTC] No.41847417{3}[source]▶
Javascript has a compiler called Babel, which plays a huge role in modern web development. It is in fact a transcompiler, meaning it doesn't turn your javascript into bytecode, it is just transpiling stuff without changing the level of abstraction.

React Compiler is just a babel plugin for automatic performance improvement, memoization specifically, for never perfectly memoized React code.

Can library have compiler? Well why can't it? For example stdlib has a compiler, because C does.