Other features of frameworks

Most frameworks have more than just the features that we described in the previous section, even though these are enough to build simple applications as you already did by yourself. Still, most web applications have a lot more common features, so the frameworks tried to implement generic solutions to each of them. Thanks to this, we do not have to reinvent the wheel with features that virtually all medium and big web applications need to implement. We will try to describe some of the most useful ones so that you have a better idea when choosing a framework.

Authentication and roles

Most websites enforce users to authenticate in order to perform some action. The reason for this is to let the system know whether the user ...

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