PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework

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!

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.

React was a library before hooks. Now it is a framework and decides when your code runs, not you. And now it is a terrible framework with server components.