The past several years have marked a significant 'framework boom', and almost everyone involved in web application development these days is a part of a new generation of 'framework boomers'. Web development frameworks help jumpstart your application by immediately delivering the core foundation and plumbing needed to quickly turn your ideas scribbled on the whiteboard into a functional and production-ready code. With all of the common features expected from web applications today and available framework options that meet these expectations, there is little reason to code your next web application from scratch. A modern, flexible, and extensible framework is almost as essential a tool as the programming language itself.
