How to Present Projects Built on Scaffolding Frameworks in Interviews
The article advises developers to avoid explicitly mentioning the use of scaffolding frameworks like RuoYi when describing project experience, suggesting they instead focus on the underlying implementation details and any custom improvements to demonstrate genuine technical contribution and avoid misconceptions about their capabilities.
Recently, many readers have fallen into the trap of explicitly stating that their projects were built on a scaffolding framework, fearing interviewers might not recognize the technology.
The author recommends that, even if a project truly relies on a scaffolding solution, candidates should avoid directly mentioning it, because scaffolds typically provide pre‑configured basic functions such as authentication, permission management, and department handling, which can make the work appear low‑tech and merely configurational.
Highlighting the use of a scaffold may lead interviewers to assume the candidate’s role was limited to simple adjustments, casting doubt on real development ability.
Furthermore, describing a project as scaffold‑based makes it difficult to articulate achievements; claiming to have implemented scaffold‑provided features oneself can feel inaccurate.
Using the popular RuoYi framework as an example, the article notes that it offers many useful features—scheduled tasks, multi‑data source support, data masking, anti‑duplicate submission, etc. If you have used such a framework, you should study its implementation logic, understand the principles, and present the work as adapting those features to your specific business scenarios.
While RuoYi is widely adopted, it also has shortcomings: some implementations are not standardized and the overall code quality can be suboptimal.
Nevertheless, RuoYi remains a great open‑source project (its source is fully free, with no commercial edition) and carries a personal story—the name comes from the author’s daughter, symbolizing a programmer’s romance.
The author also expresses personal endorsement of RuoYi on Zhihu and provides the official documentation link: https://doc.ruoyi.vip/ruoyi/ .
Numerous open‑source projects have been built on top of RuoYi; for instance, the AgileBoot‑Back‑End project performs extensive refactoring and optimization, improving code standards, maintainability, and overall quality. Demonstrating similar improvements in your own project can leave a strong impression on interviewers.
Project address for AgileBoot‑Back‑End: https://github.com/valarchie/AgileBoot-Back-End .
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