alt Hacker NewsReact's homepage says "The library for" and "Go full-stack with a framework. React is a library. It lets you put components together, but it doesn’t prescribe how to do routing and data fetching. To build an entire app with React, we recommend a full-stack React framework like Next.js or React Router." and "React is also an architecture. Frameworks that implement it let you..."
React's Wikipedia page says "React ... is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library", and has no mention of Framework.
Why die on a hill that it "is" something it says it isn't?
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> Why die on a hill that it "is" something it says it isn't?
There's plenty of guru who say that they are the reincarnation of Jesus and/or Buddha, doesn't mean that we have to take their word for it.
In the same vein, North Korea is officially the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", even though it's obviously not a democracy.
The meta about us page also says it is a privacy first company.
The ecosystem is starting to move to the term metaframework to describe nextjs or tanstack. We're now getting layers upon layers upon layers.
> Why die on a hill that it "is" something it says it isn't?
Because I think they're wrong about that.
If you'd prefer a different metaphor this is windmill I will tilt at.
To provide a little more of a rationale: React code calls the code I write - the JSX and the handlers and suchlike.
It's also pretty uncommon to see React used at the same time as other non-React libraries that handle UI stuff.
Most importantly, the culture and ecosystem of React is one of a framework. You chose React at the start of a project and it then affects everything else you build afterwards.