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

 
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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