Software frameworks are the lifeline of software applications. They provide extended capabilities and offer many out-of-the-box implementations so that application developers don't need to handle every coding aspect of software and can focus on building faster and smarter business capabilities by using out-of-the-box capabilities, libraries, APIs, and models provided by the frameworks.
We'll provide a short introduction to few popular frameworks along with a little bit of information about their supported programming languages, capabilities, standards, and characteristics, such as footprints, adaptability, cloud deployment friendliness, and ease of development.
The aim of this chapter is to introduce readers to a few prominent frameworks that can come in handy when choosing the right framework for their API-development needs...