A Content Management System (CMS) is an application that consists of features and functionalities that enable you to easily manage and publish content in a website or webshop without needing a developer.

A typical CMS has two major components:

1. A content management application (CMA), which allows you to add, modify, and remove the content on your site; and
2. A content delivery application (CDA), which is what works behind the scenes, compiling the content you input in the CMA, updating it, and delivering it to the frontend of your site—which is what your site visitors will see.

Widely used open-source CMS platforms include: Wordepress, Magento, Umbraco, Drupal, Joomla etc.

A framework is a set of codes used to build websites and web applications.

Unlike a CMS, it doesn’t have ‘ready-to-use’ tools to manage and update content. However, a framework does come with ‘common codes’ that serve as building blocks for developing your website, making it a relatively easier option compared to coding completely from scratch.

Frameworks can also be extended using the “libraries”, which are collections of functions installed with frameworks, to create new functionalities by extending the framework’s core features in a similar way that plugins do for CMS.

Examples of frameworks include: .NET, Laravel, CodeIgniter,Phalcon,Symfony.