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AleCx04
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From my last job interview (which I got hired btw)

Lead developer: "so we see quite a lot of frameworks that you listed for php, Laravel,cakephp, codeigniter, we really like the idea of them but have not had the opportunity to use them since as you might know by know our pages run over basic and small scripts, you also listed some cool front end frameworks, react looks amazing and I do have somr experience. Tell me, if given the choice, which framework would you use for php?"

Me: Really depends on the project, but the ones that you have described previously seem that they would not really benefit from them, we should not use them if they are overkill or will not expand to anything else on the future"

Him: "But given the choice?"

Me: my own framework, completed it a couple of days ago, it has its own routing system and everything made by yours truly, used it before on some projects in which the developers work with it with no need to ask me about stuff, the documentation is sound and the code rather simple. Php is and can really be all you need depending on what we are talking about."

Him: **stands up, moves closer to me and fist bumps**
"All right now moving on, i was wondering abouy redux, what are the benefits of..."

Walked out of there like a boss, it got interesting when we started talking about Lisp, apparently they are interested in putting some Clojure to test in small things since they want to learn new things and apply them. Yup, this gon b good!!

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  • 11
    Every fucking dev... every one has a “fuck it I’m doing it myself framework”.

    Sorry, glad your FW is sound. Your story gave me flashbacks of one dev’s attempt at Ionic 2 i had to rip out, and the other’s bootstrap 2 clone.

    Good luck brother. Congrats on the job!
  • 2
    @jamescodesthing thanks man!! That is basically what happened with me when going through some frameworks, so I said fuck it and made my own lil thang haha
  • 4
    @AleCx04 as long as you can keep it up that sounds good man. Some of the ones I’ve seen have been horrific 😂
  • 2
    @jamescodesthing haha oh I will keep it as simple as possible. Don't wanna make a mess out of it and its for simple projects, which for around here it ks 90% of the use cases. For everything else there is django 😎
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