[dsiegel2275]

Lost me at "React is a Framework" assertion. The key difference between a "framework" and a "library" is the inversion of control that exists in a framework.

React is a library - your app still maintains control of application state and drives the main workings of the application. It is just simply using the React library to render that application state.

[gloosx]

Fully agree, Inversion of Control is not something which alone defines something as a framework. When defining it along the architectural axis React is architecturally unopinionated thus is has library-level scope, but framework-like control semantics. If framework = anything that uses inversion of control, then a lot of things suddenly become frameworks, including things nobody calls frameworks. One can call it a "rendering framework" but calling it a "web-application framework" is not factually correct.