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Discussion on: Why is React a library and not a (simple) framework?

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

That's not exactly what I meant. "jQuery developer" used to be not commonly sought and still is here and there.

My point was more that when prior refer to react, they're usually intending to mean "in the manner of a react developer".

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Renan Lourençoni Nobile

Oops, my mistake. But I think I still don't get your point about the react developer

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

yeah I should have been clear.
The react library itself it fairly focused. It provides a JS-based component model, a virtual DOM abstraction, and that's about it.

But when people talk about 'react', that's not what they mean. They mean

  • webpack
  • jsx
  • maybe typescript
  • redux or mobx or some other state container
  • one of a variety of app architectures that have popped up in the react community
  • create-react-app
  • babel. So. Much. Babel.
  • probably jest

and the list goes on.

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Renan Lourençoni Nobile

Ohh yes, that's the point the, in my concept, makes React a framework or maybe something more than just a library, the amount of other libraries that creates the react ecosystem