ReactJS is just a view, but what a view!
Charles Cézanne famously said, "Monet is just an eye, but what an eye!" Monet didn't try to show off his knowledge of structure and anatomy, but just copy what his eye saw. The consensus judgment of his work holds on to both "just an eye," and "what an eye!" And indeed, the details may be indistinct in Monet, who rebelled against artistry that tried to impress with deep knowledge of anatomy and knowledge of structure that is far beyond what jumps out to the eye.
ReactJS is a framework rather than a library, which means that you are supposed to build a solution within the structure provided by ReactJS instead of plugging ReactJS into a solution that you structure yourself. The canonical example of a library ...
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