WordPress as a web application framework

In practice, the decision to choose a development framework depends on the complexity of your application. Developers will tend to go for frameworks in most scenarios. It's important to figure out why we go with frameworks for web development. Here's a list of possible reasons why frameworks become a priority in web application development:

• Frameworks provide stable foundations for building custom functionalities
• Usually, stable frameworks have a large development community with an active support
• They have built-in features to address the common aspects of application development, such as routing, language support, form validation, user management, and more
• They have a large amount of utility functions to address repetitive tasks

Full stack development frameworks such as Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP adhere to the points mentioned in the preceding section, which in turn becomes the framework of choice for most developers. However, we have to keep in mind that WordPress is an application where we build applications on top of existing features. On the other hand, traditional frameworks are foundations used for building applications such as WordPress. Now, let's take a look at how WordPress fits into the boots of the web application framework.