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This is a heavily outdated opinion. The "default" react experience nowadays is Next.js and that is definitely a framework not a library.

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React is a component library.

Angular.js is a framework.

Next.js is also a framework.

Comparing apples to apples, then you should compare Angular.js to Next.js, and not React.

Isn't next.js a server side framework? How can you compare server side framework with frontend framework? It's the same (silly) way you'd compare PHP with HTML!

React is a component library.

Next.js is a framework.

Angular is both a component library AND a framework.

Agreed, although NextJS is still a lot lighter to me than angular

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