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

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Renan Lourençoni Nobile

I see Angular and React as frameworks because you develop a Angular or React app, but when you use jQuery, you're just creating a web page that has some cool stuff.

I feel like React is very complex, specially when you include Redux and his friends. Don't know if this complexity comes from the mindset of a Angular dev, but when I first glanced React, it was very unfamiliar to me.

Of course React allows you to do things your way, but there's a structure to be followed in the end. In this topic, javascript allows you to do things the way you want, which is why there are so many libraries and frameworks.