First you can use reactjs alone without a flux architecture. > Why are frameworks considered such a good thing The only thing nice about framework is that the

First you can use reactjs alone without a flux architecture. > Why are frameworks considered such a good thing The only thing nice about framework is that they make the main workflow obvious. But things becomes scary when you walk on the wild side (backed by experience with Django and Django RESTframework) The problem with reactjs is that facebook was using reactjs and its "architecture" for big apps and now they try to make it work in a more general context. > in web UI programming that widely used and admired libraries end up being called "frameworks" as a term of respect? Backbone is framework, saying it's a library because you can use only the collection model and use whatever method you want to fetch your data or whatever template language or bind events yourself is like saying you can replace the URL routing or template language of Django on your own. Doable but not recommended.