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This is unfair. HTMX and Alpine could hardly be considered frameworks.

React, by comparison, is absolutely massive. It's complicated. It requires compilation, and often a complex build configuration. You still need a backend server, so it won't obviate Django.

Your comment speaks to a larger debate, but it's a rather disappointing contribution.

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> [React] requires compilation

technically, but not in the same way e.g. Svelte does. the syntax used by React, JSX, is simple local syntactic sugar:

  <Foo x={a} y={b}>...</Foo>
  // ↓
  createElement(Foo, { x: a, y: b }, ...)

i.e. basically a macro, no real "compiling" going on

If you need to run it through a "transform" step, in this context, it's compiling. What it ultimately gets transformed to, and the implications of that, is a different discussion

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