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nicoburnsyesterday at 1:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Most people don't but you absolutely can use React a library. When React was very new, it was popular to use it as a view layer with backbone.js. In that usage, it's essentially a sophisticated templating library.


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foobarchuyesterday at 6:04 PM

You can use Spring as a library if you really want to as well, but it's still a framework.

Id maybe concede that frameworks are a subset of libraries. You can use most frameworks in a library fashion, but the opposite is not true (you'd need a mini framework)