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Re:What React Gets Wrong by dragonwriter on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:38PM (#25678656)
> They could have made React lighter and require no compilation.

React requires no compilation. (JSX requires compilation, but you can use React without JSX.)

> But instead they created a scaffold and fought complexity by adding more complexity.

CRA is a scaffold, but you don’t need to use CRA to use React.

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Re:What React Gets Wrong by loosetypes on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:20PM (#25679045)
> React requires no compilation. (JSX requires compilation, but you can use React without JSX.)

While true I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a non-didactic codebase that uses react but not jsx.

Can anyone point to any recognizable projects or products that do so?

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