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Discussion on: React JS Isn’t Actually A Web Framework But Why Are There So Many Others?

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naveennamani

Even the official website of reactjs says

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Your first point speaks the point, yes even I learnt JavaScript first and then python.
But what I feel the reason for a wider technical gap is the fact that JavaScript doesn't have a standard library like python, so every little thing that we can do has been made as a package.
Things like is-even package still hits 180k weekly downloads. Whereas widely used machine learning libraries in python has <30 dependencies. This lack of standard library makes everyone to reinvent the wheel without knowing that someone already build a vehicle on that wheel. I feel like denojs approach is a good point towards avoiding this mess with nodejs.