React doesn't have a lot of dependencies. The person you are responding to linked to React Native, which is an entirely different thing. I think it's a bit mis

React doesn't have a lot of dependencies. The person you are responding to linked to React Native, which is an entirely different thing. I think it's a bit misguided to think that code quality won't be visible to users. As someone who has used both React and React Native, the quality of these two projects from a user perspective is worlds apart, and I have little doubt that their different approaches to dependencies are partly to blame for that.