description: The new-project itch isn't a bug. It's a feature — if you learn how to route it. series: Hands-On Engineering Inside every developer lives a second self — the one who wants a new project the moment they get bored with the current one....

Frameworks are good for more than just boilerplate. They encode decisions: how to structure a project, where logic belongs, how to handle requests. A developer picking up Laravel or Spring for the first time isn't just getting free code — they're inh...