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Discussion on: 7 Reasons Why React is King of JavaScript UI Frameworks

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Stijn de Ligt

React on it's own is unusable for me, even though React is my favourite front-end framework.

Because it's a library and not a framework you need a lot of extra tools to create a full React application. Instead I opt to use meta frameworks like NextJs and Gatsby. These are built on top of React and make setting up a project not make you want to jump off a bridge.

That's the biggest drawback for React, and also why I think the opinions are so extreme on it. People that use meta frameworks love it, people that try to set up a regular React stack hate it and go back to Vue. Just a working theory.