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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by raesene9 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:10AM (#33188502)
I used to be a web app security tester. I loved it when I got an app that didn't use a framework for development because I knew I'd get some security issues for sure.

In the context of web applications, frameworks mean that your devs don't have to be experts in SQL Injection, XSS, SSRF, Session management etc etc etc.

My experience over several hundred tests was that without a framework there weren't many apps that could get that right first time. If they were lucky the pentesters found the issues, if they were unlucky, it was attackers.

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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by snovv_crash on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:33AM (#33189323)
A library could work here too, to turn off the footguns and provide safe tooling. No need for the library to also intercept all of the DOM callbacks for you as well.
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