That's like saying a ship doesn't have to sit in the water. You could put in in a dry dock too, and put wheels on it. But now it's not really a ship anymore. Re

That's like saying a ship doesn't have to sit in the water. You could put in in a dry dock too, and put wheels on it. But now it's not really a ship anymore. React, the UI framework, is a UI framework and is for user interfaces. The output _can_ be "not human consumable" but then it's not React, that's something else.