frameworkfor

frameworkfor is a software framework designed to accelerate development of modular web and service-oriented applications. It emphasizes minimalism, convention-over-configuration, and composability, providing a set of core abstractions for routing, dependency injection, middleware, and data access that can be extended with plugins.

Originally released as an open-source project, frameworkfor aims to balance simplicity with flexibility by offering a small core and an ecosystem of optional modules. Its architecture separates transport concerns from business logic, enabling developers to reuse the same services across HTTP, message queues, and serverless platforms. A central plugin system allows third-party components to register middleware, serializers, and adapters without modifying the core codebase.

Common components include a declarative router, lightweight IoC container, schema-driven validation, and adapters for popular databases and authentication providers. Documentation typically highlights patterns for building microservices, API gateways, and background workers, and includes command-line tools for scaffolding and testing.

Adoption is most common among teams seeking a pragmatic alternative to heavier full-stack frameworks while retaining structure for production systems. The framework is distributed under a permissive open-source license in most distributions, encouraging commercial and community contributions.

Criticisms of frameworkfor often focus on ecosystem maturity and potential fragmentation due to many small plugins. Advocates point to its composability and low operational overhead as strengths for teams preferring a do-it-yourself approach to system architecture.