> react let’s you do pretty much whatever you want
Ok, so I haven't gotten around to learning React yet, but I understand it to be the next iteration of what Angular, which I have learned, was trying to be. Angular "let you do whatever you wanted", too, which made me wonder why it was even there in the first place. Javascript lets me do whatever I want, I just have to write a lot of code to do that. In theory, a framework ought to reduce the amount of code I had to write, but I found that I was actually writing more code to work around the 90% of things Angular didn't do than I would if I just used Javascript and DOM manipulation. Frameworks that "let you do whatever you want" usually end up being the thing they're supposed to replace with extra steps.
React is very very little, is not really a framework, l and honestly I think most folks are really either talking about JSX when they talk about React or they are talking Create-React-App and it’s ecosystem (which really is much more like a framework).
JSX comes down to being a convenient way to write HTML in your JS instead of JS in your HTML. After that, it’s just vanilla js.
Ok, so I haven't gotten around to learning React yet, but I understand it to be the next iteration of what Angular, which I have learned, was trying to be. Angular "let you do whatever you wanted", too, which made me wonder why it was even there in the first place. Javascript lets me do whatever I want, I just have to write a lot of code to do that. In theory, a framework ought to reduce the amount of code I had to write, but I found that I was actually writing more code to work around the 90% of things Angular didn't do than I would if I just used Javascript and DOM manipulation. Frameworks that "let you do whatever you want" usually end up being the thing they're supposed to replace with extra steps.