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Dan Abramov, React lead, says this:

"i like to think of React as two things. React is a library. it is also an architecture (which frameworks may implement)"

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1585088716443615234

Ember.js, Angular and Vue are frameworks. React is a render library.

> React is a framework though.

framework vs library -- how would you define them?

Your code calls a library; a framework calls your code.

That sounds nice but it’s not that simple. In the case of react you are doing both. You are importing functions like hooks and render. Then you pass render a function that then gets called by react.

If you're only using React then it's just a rendering library running in YOUR application.