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> I’d like to say React is still a library, but it calls your code, so that’s not quite right.

That's exactly what a framework is.

That’s what I’m saying. The developers call it a library, but it’s not. Which is why React has a state management software ecosystem.

If it was, you probably wouldn’t need all of this.

> A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

A word I saw it referred to as in a blogpost somewhere and makes complete sense is that "React is a runtime"