>So now you need a framework on top of React - itself a framework. You definitely do not need any framework for react, you don't even need a build step. And re

>So now you need a framework on top of React - itself a framework. You definitely do not need any framework for react, you don't even need a build step. And react is not a framework. Not that it has objective meaning, but I think these frameworks are not abstraction layers on react, they are tools sitting along side it to make things easier or give more features. You still interface the same with writing the same old jsx.