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by drinchev 3690 days ago
Where's the boundary between boilerplate and framework?

I think people have hard times pronouncing framework these days, because it sounds offending in terms of learning curve. Why would you spend X amount of days to learn a framework, when you can spend that time learning about the core technologies and make yourself no-dead-code code base? That's why I dislike frameworks.

With React-boilerplate, having a CLI tool that helps you modify the "boilerplate" I think we are getting more or less to the framework definition.

In any case I've never used a boilerplate without having to use `rm` command after installing it. That's why I dislike boilerplates and avoid them.