We use React very much like JQuery, simply bringing it in as a dependency. However, we use Webpack to facilitate React development by sprinkling some JSX in the mix. Without Webpack, we'd have to write all of our elements in a very cumbersome API that is pure JS. Webpack also let's us optimize tons of other things in the background such as cross-browser compatibility (for the most part). So, I think this whole magical setup of a React project with Webpack using create-react-app is what gives us the false impression that React is a full-blown framework. However, when we compare what React provides us to Angular, we notice that React is just a component library when compared to Angular's routing, dependency injection, module management, etc. Also, Angular has some very opinionated ways of organizing the code base whereas React doesn't. When we use React, all of these additional features have to come from some other library, not Facebook (owner's of the React project).
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We use React very much like JQuery, simply bringing it in as a dependency. However, we use Webpack to facilitate React development by sprinkling some JSX in the mix. Without Webpack, we'd have to write all of our elements in a very cumbersome API that is pure JS. Webpack also let's us optimize tons of other things in the background such as cross-browser compatibility (for the most part). So, I think this whole magical setup of a React project with Webpack using
create-react-appis what gives us the false impression that React is a full-blown framework. However, when we compare what React provides us to Angular, we notice that React is just a component library when compared to Angular's routing, dependency injection, module management, etc. Also, Angular has some very opinionated ways of organizing the code base whereas React doesn't. When we use React, all of these additional features have to come from some other library, not Facebook (owner's of the React project).