Alternatives

Oh My Prvd is not the first Roblox game framework. In fact, there are several existing game frameworks for Roblox. Besides Oh My Prvd, you might consider:

• Knit by sleitnick
• Flamework by fireboltofdeath
• Nevermore by Quenty
• Proton by sleitnick
• Pronghorn by Iron Stag Games
• Lazy Modules by NightLapse Studios
• Lumin Framework by Lumin Labs

So, why did we make Oh My Prvd?

Each of these frameworks solve the same problem in multiple angles. The goal of Oh My Prvd is to take all of the lessons and ideas learned from these projects and build a framework that can solve this problem for good. In addition, all of these frameworks have major drawbacks:

• Knit is under long term support with sparse updates and nearing an archive, in addition it introduces a hefty level of bloat, has subpar types;
• Flamework requires TypeScript and is tightly coupled with its transformer;
• Nevermore introduces an outrageous level of bloat and also harder to use, being geared primarily just for Quenty;
• Proton is under development and requires TypeScript;
• Pronghorn does not implement dependency injection, minimal extensibility and introduces some bloat;
• Lazy Modules has subpar syntax, somewhat couples code;
• Lumin Framework only focuses on networking and provides no primitives for singletons/providers;

Finally:

• We think a framework should be distributed as a single module, for decoupling and extensibility.
• We think a framework should be designed for both Luau and TypeScript.
• We think the conventions promoted by other frameworks (e.g. splitting between services and controllers, forcing games to follow a structure) are sub-optimal.
• We have a good enough understanding of the problem to develop something robust.
• We think Oh My Prvd should be able to do more than just connect providers.

This is not to say Oh My Prvd is superior, at least not yet: