r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/A1oso 2d ago

React is 7.4 kB. It's a myth that react is a heavy framework. You can absolutely implement only certain parts of your web app in react, and other parts using different libraries or vanilla JS.

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u/PlasmaFarmer 2d ago

React is not a framework, it's a library.  And yeah React is that much kB but how about the gazillion libraries you add to get a functional app?

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 2d ago

What is a framework and what is a library

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u/ludolfina 2d ago edited 2d ago

Angular gives you everything you need to build a complete client-side app, React is just for the view part. You still need other libraries for state management and other things