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by Capricorn2481 411 days ago
> React is the new Java.

Overly hated on and conflated with frameworks, yes.

React requires very little from you. Even less if you don't want to use JSX. But because Facebook pushes puzzlingly heavy starter kits, everyone thinks React needs routers or NextJS. But what barebones React is, at the end of the day, is hardly what I'd call a framework, and is suitable for little JS "islands."