Libraries and frameworks
Let's start with libraries and frameworks. Libraries are basically pre-programmed JavaScript modules that you can use to speed up your development process. They typically do one specific thing for you. Frameworks are very similar, they are also pre-programmed, but instead of doing only one thing for you, they arrange a whole list of things. This is why it is called a framework, it really is providing you a solid place to start from and usually demands a certain structure for your files in order to do so. A framework is often a bundle of libraries that provide an all-in-one solution. Or at least a many-in-one. You'll eventually even find yourself using external libraries on top of the frameworks.
To give a non-code example, if we started building a car, we could do so from scratch and make every single piece of this car ourselves. This is pretty much what we've been doing in this book so far. With libraries, we get ready-made parts—...
