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Frameworkatis is premature development of frameworks. It is a common disease among less experienced software developers. It passes as one's experience grows.

Symptoms

Frameworkatis presents itself as one of the following:

• A first design meeting for a project begins with words: "We are going to develop a framework"
• Project's codebase is broken up to "core" and "app" before the first line of code is written
• A framework serves needs of a single project with no possibility of reuse in observable future
• A framework experiences the same or greater rate of changes as the project it serves.

• Insecurity
• Boredom
• Dissatisfaction with one's workspace

1. Always start a project as a single code base
2. When starting a project, consider needs in the new project in light of the existing project
3. If the significant amount of code in the exciting projects solves common problems, extract that code as a utility API or a framework
4. Otherwise, develop the new project as a single codebase as usual