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I personally have often drawn the analogy of frameworks-as-general-contractors. Subcontractors (devs/engineers) are hired throughout the lifetime of the project and are the ones actually building all or most of the individual components, using tools (libraries), but their work streams are specified and directed by the GC.

Some GC's are super opinionated (Rails/Django/Sails) and others kinda let you do what you want (Sinatra/Flask/Express). Neither disposition is inherently bad, but can have serious consequences as a direct result of both.

I think this maps pretty well to the "framework calls you" concept you point out, a nod to inversion of control I assume.



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