已经有很多很好的答案了，但让我看看我是否能给你另一个观点。

为了简化事情，您可以将框架视为一个除了实际功能之外完整的应用程序。你插入功能和PRESTO!你有一个应用程序。

Consider, say, a GUI framework. The framework contains everything you need to make an application. Indeed you can often trivially make a minimal application with very few lines of source that does absolutely nothing -- but it does give you window management, sub-window management, menus, button bars, etc. That's the framework side of things. By adding your application functionality and "plugging it in" to the right places in the framework you turn this empty app that does nothing more than window management, etc. into a real, full-blown application.

对于web应用程序，服务器端应用程序等也有类似类型的框架。在每种情况下，框架提供了大量乏味、重复的代码(希望如此)，而您提供了实际的问题域功能。(这是理想状态。当然，在现实中，框架的成功有很大的变数。)

我再次强调，这是对框架的简化观点。我没有使用像“控制反转”之类的可怕术语，尽管大多数框架都内置了这样可怕的概念。既然你是初学者，我想我就不给你行话了，用一个简单的比喻。

我不确定“框架”是否有一个明确的定义。有时，一组很大的库被称为框架，但我认为这个词的典型用法更接近于aioobe带来的定义。

这篇非常好的文章总结了一组库和一个框架之间的区别:

框架可以定义为一组库，它们说“不要给我们打电话，我们会给你打电话”。

框架如何帮助您?因为您不需要从头开始编写一些东西，基本上只需扩展一个给定的工作应用程序。通过这种方式，您可以获得很高的生产率——有时最终得到的应用程序可能比您在相同时间内自己所做的要复杂得多——但您通常会牺牲很多灵活性。

I'm very late to answer it. But, I would like to share one example, which I only thought of today. If I told you to cut a piece of paper with dimensions 5m by 5m, then surely you would do that. But suppose I ask you to cut 1000 pieces of paper of the same dimensions. In this case, you won't do the measuring 1000 times; obviously, you would make a frame of 5m by 5m, and then with the help of it you would be able to cut 1000 pieces of paper in less time. So, what you did was make a framework which would do a specific type of task. Instead of performing the same type of task again and again for the same type of applications, you create a framework having all those facilities together in one nice packet, hence providing the abstraction for your application and more importantly many applications.

从技术上讲，您不需要框架。如果你想做一个非常非常简单的网站(想想1992年的网页)，你可以用硬编码的HTML和一些CSS来完成。

如果你想做一个现代的网络应用，你实际上也不需要使用框架。

You can instead choose to write all of the logic you need yourself, every time. You can write your own data-persistence/storage layer, or - if you're too busy - just write custom SQL for every single database access. You can write your own authentication and session handling layers. And your own template rending logic. And your own exception-handling logic. And your own security functions. And your own unit test framework to make sure it all works fine. And your own... [goes on for quite a long time]

然后，如果您确实使用了一个框架，您将能够从优秀的、通常是同行评审的、经过很好测试的其他开发人员的工作中受益，他们可能比您更好。您可以快速构建想要的内容，而不必花费时间构建或过于担心上面列出的基础设施项目。

您可以在更短的时间内完成更多的工作，并且知道您正在使用或扩展的框架代码很可能比您自己做得更好。

那么成本呢?花点时间学习框架。但是，正如几乎每个web开发人员都会证明的那样，花时间学习从使用你选择的任何框架中获得大量(真的，大量)好处是绝对值得的。

维基百科(软件框架)的摘要(第一个谷歌点击顺便说一下)解释得很好:

A software framework, in computer programming, is an abstraction in which common code providing generic functionality can be selectively overridden or specialized by user code providing specific functionality. Frameworks are a special case of software libraries in that they are reusable abstractions of code wrapped in a well-defined Application programming interface (API), yet they contain some key distinguishing features that separate them from normal libraries. Software frameworks have these distinguishing features that separate them from libraries or normal user applications: inversion of control - In a framework, unlike in libraries or normal user applications, the overall program's flow of control is not dictated by the caller, but by the framework.[1] default behavior - A framework has a default behavior. This default behavior must actually be some useful behavior and not a series of no-ops. extensibility - A framework can be extended by the user usually by selective overriding or specialized by user code providing specific functionality. non-modifiable framework code - The framework code, in general, is not allowed to be modified. Users can extend the framework, but not modify its code.

您可能“需要”它，因为它在开发应用程序时为您提供了一个很好的快捷方式，因为它包含了许多已经编写和测试过的功能。原因与我们使用软件库的原因非常相似。

一个简单的解释是:框架是一个可以围绕它构建应用程序的支架。

A framework generally provides some base functionality which you can use and extend to make more complex applications from, there are frameworks for all sorts of things. Microsofts MVC framework is a good example of this. It provides everything you need to get off the ground building website using the MVC pattern, it handles web requests, routes and the like. All you have to do is implement "Controllers" and provide "Views" which are two constructs defined by the MVC framework. The MVC framework then handles calling your controllers and rendering your views.

也许不是最好的措辞，但我希望它有帮助