Framework integration: QBCore, Qbox, ESX

Real FiveM servers usually run a framework. A framework answers the same boring questions for every script: who is this player, how much money do they have, what job are they on, what inventory do they carry. This lesson reads like a translation guide. Learn the idea once, then see how ESX, QBCore, and Qbox spell it. Then you build a script that actually acts on it: getting a player, changing their money, and reading their job, the same three moves in three dialects.

You'll learn: What a framework is -> how the player object looks in each one -> the export vs event style of getting a framework reference -> money and job basics -> load events -> the ox_lib tools you will use most days
Time: ~55 minutes
Prereqs: Module 04 complete. A test server with any of ESX / QBCore / Qbox installed. ox_lib resource running.
Outcome: You can read and compare scripts written for ESX, QBCore, and Qbox, detect which one is running, and build a resource that gets a player, gives them real money, and reads their job on all three.

Cruze builds a framework script with ox_lib, step by step.

BEFORE YOU START

The frameworks at a glance

A framework gives your scripts a basic structure so you do not build everything from scratch. Each one has its own docs and its own way of spelling the same ideas. Bookmark the one your server actually runs.

A few facts to keep straight:

Qbox calls itself a QBCore successor and keeps a QB compatibility bridge. ESX Legacy and QBCore stay separate ecosystems.
ox_lib is optional utility code, not a requirement of ESX or QBCore.
The maintained 2026 ox_lib, oxmysql, ox_target, and ox_inventory repos live under Community Ox. They are community resources, not Cfx.re platform features.

ESX LegacyThe largest script ecosystem, especially in the EU. Actively maintained.docs.esx-framework.org QboxThe actively maintained, ox-native QBCore successor. A one-click txAdmin recipe.docs.qbox.re QBCoreLegacy framework with a large ready-made catalog. Development has largely stalled.docs.qbcore.org ox_libThe core UI, callback, and utility library nearly every modern resource depends on.overextended.dev/ox_lib

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