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I guess what I meant was when you build a widget with react - the whole widget has to be react.

With jQuery, you're likely building it with html and using jQuery for user interactions or animations (I know - not always true - constructing the markup with $('<tag>') is also useful). So its easier to rip out jQuery and replace it with - say - document.querySelector - or whatnot.

I personally think React is overkill if you're pulling it in to do a small widget on a larger non-react page