Asa programmer, you know that web development and software development can be complex work. A framework can make your job easier, and save you the trouble of writing your code totally from scratch. The right framework can also reduce your development time by making it faster to design and troubleshoot.
A framework is a boilerplate that facilitates development by offering infrastructure that you can build your own code on top of. Or, you can think of it as a template that provides pre-coded and reusable functions to facilitate software development.
Most programming languages have at least one associated framework, if not more. JavaScript frameworks include Vue and Angular, Ruby has Ruby on Rails, Python has Django, and so on. The contents of a framework can vary broadly depending on the framework, its language, and its purpose.
In most cases, popular frameworks are open source and maintained by a community of developers. For example, Vercel makes Next.js because it speeds up app development, and makes it simpler for developers to use their service.
In short, frameworks make development much simpler for you and your team. Since some of the code is already written and tested, a framework can speed up the development process, improve security, reduce the risk of errors, and a whole lot more.
As you might guess, frameworks can be used for a variety of development projects. You can find frameworks for software development, web development, working with APIs, and even doing data science work.
Developer Advocate Alvin Bryan offers a real-world example to drive the point home: "Unity and Unreal are both frameworks for developing games," he says. "They both use different programming languages, one uses C++ and the other uses C#. But they might use the same library for the task of managing and controlling sound. That means they both call that library to perform a specific task."
To get a bit more technical, the distinction between a framework and a coding library can be explained by a concept called inversion of control. When you use a library, your code calls the library to perform a specific task, for a specific outcome. When you use a framework, it calls your code.
Speed: When you develop an application from scratch, your code for certain functionality might be less than perfectly optimized. (We all know deadlines can be tight.) When you use a framework for that same functionality, you are using code that has been developed and continuously reworked to provide the highest possible speed. In short: frameworks can make your apps much faster.
Documentation: Good frameworks come with extensive documentation and community support. That is a big reason to use a framework, where you have regularly updated resources for reference, and other people to learn from and share experiences with.
Better security: Whether your framework is maintained by a company like Meta or Microsoft, or a community of programmers, you can trust that it has been tested and re-tested to address the security vulnerabilities of the programming language.
If you are a programmer at a company, they will likely have a set of frameworks they like to use for various backend, frontend, and web development projects. Or, if you plan to work with a service like Contentful, they will likely have frameworks they can recommend for your software or web development.
The options can be difficult to navigate, but with a little research you can find a framework that works for you. And the right framework will bring big benefits: It will reduce development time, save money, and ultimately help you make better applications and websites.
I'm developing an existing .NET core app. I use Windows and Visual Studio at work (and I was not the one setting up that environment).But am trying to also set up an environment so I can develop from my personal laptop, where I use Fedora 29.
As @Hostel noted, those are references for the older .Net frameworks that run only on Windows. You will likely need to refactor the application to use solely .Net Core libraries, possibly in a separate repo as you suggested to avoid breaking your co-workers' code.
The following steps assume you're building solutions for SharePoint Online using the latest version of the SharePoint Framework. If you're building solutions for SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Server 2016, refer to the additional documentation referenced in the See also section below.
Node.js is frequently updated and available on multiple platforms including macOS, Windows, and Linux. Because the exact download links change frequently, they aren't linked to from this page. Instead, use the details below to determine which installer to download for your platform.
Be aware that Node.js maintains two different releases at all times: LTS & Current version. The SharePoint Framework is only supported on LTS versions. For more information about Node.js's Long Term Support (LTS) releases, see: Node.js > Releases.
The Node.js website always recommends the latest installer for both the LTS & Current releases. To download specific versions of Node.js versions, use the Node.js > Downloads > Previous Releases page.
The SharePoint Framework development and build toolchain leverages various popular open-source tools. While most dependencies are included in each project, you need to install a few dependencies globally on your workstation.
Gulp is a JavaScript-based task runner used to automate repetitive tasks. The SharePoint Framework build toolchain uses Gulp tasks to build projects, create JavaScript bundles, and the resulting packages used to deploy solutions.
Yeoman helps you kick-start new projects, and prescribes best practices and tools to help you stay productive. SharePoint client-side development tools include a Yeoman generator for creating new web parts. The generator provides common build tools, common boilerplate code, and a common playground website to host web parts for testing.
SharePoint Framework v1.18.2 release included the support for Yeoman v5. If you are using previous SPFx version, you might need to install an older version. Yeoman v4.x is required by the SPFx version 1.13 until 1.18.1. You can install latest v4 version with the following command:
The SharePoint Framework's local web server, used when testing your custom solutions from your development environment, uses HTTPS by default. This is implemented using a development self-signed SSL certificate. Self-signed SSL certificates are not trusted by your developer environment. You must first configure your development environment to trust the certificate.
A utility task is included in every SharePoint Framework project in the form of a gulp task. You can elect to do this now, or wait until you create your first project as covered in the Build your first SharePoint client-side web part (Hello World part 1) tutorial.
The SPFx is available on SharePoint Online (SPO), SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SE), SharePoint Server 2019, & SharePoint Server 2016. The configuration instructions on this page assume you're creating solutions using the latest version of the SPFx for SharePoint Online.
If you're building solutions for a SharePoint Server on-prem deployment, review to the See also section for details on specific SharePoint versions. Each SharePoint on-prem only supports a specific version of SPFx. This can introduce complicated development environment configurations if you're creating different solutions for different SharePoint deployments.
If you're having trouble trusting your self-signed certificate when you run gulp trust-dev-cert & you've verified that the correct versions of all dependencies are installed, one solution we usually see resolve the issue is to uninstall all globally installed packages, uninstall Node.js, reboot & start again.
In some cases, executing the command gulp trust-dev-cert, doesn't have the wanted effect of trusting the self-signed development certificate on your machine. In rare cases such as these, you may need to delete a hidden folder that's generated in your profile folder.
In case the certificate is not added to the Trusted Root Certification Authority despite running gulp trust-dev-cert because of some policies blocking the action, the rushstack-serve.pem file from homedir/.rushstack folder can be imported manually into the Certificate Manager under Trusted Root Certification Authority with a local admin account.
If your development environment is behind a corporate proxy, you need to configure NPM to use that proxy. Refer to the npm-config documents on how to configure your development environment behind a corporate proxy... specifically the proxy & http-proxy settings. More information: Configure NPM for a corporate web proxy
.NET is an integral part of many apps running on Windows and provides common functionality for those apps to run. For developers, .NET Framework provides a comprehensive and consistent programming model for building apps that have visually stunning user experiences and seamless and secure communication.
This article is intended for developers who either want to install .NET Framework on their own system or who want to install it with their applications. For users interested in installing .NET Framework, see the individual articles that discuss installing .NET Framework on specific operating systems, such as Install .NET Framework on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
This article provides links for installing all versions of .NET Framework from .NET Framework 4.5 to .NET Framework 4.8.1 on your computer. If you're a developer, you can also use these links to download and redistribute .NET Framework with your apps. For information on deploying a version of .NET Framework with your app, see .NET Framework deployment guide for developers.
All .NET Framework versions since .NET Framework 4 are in-place updates, so only a single 4.x version can be present on a system. In addition, particular versions of .NET Framework are preinstalled on some versions of the Windows operating system. This means that:
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