JQuery is just a hammer. Its not a framework. It does provide utilities like selectors, events, triggers, dom manipulation etc. React is a component based framework. It contains pages, routes, state management, caching etc. You cannot compare those two. In a way jQuery is low level just above vanilla. Wheras react has a minimum of 500 execution layers. Thats why its slow and painful in many cases.

To be pedantic, React is a library, and doesn't provide page abstractions, routes, or state management outside useState and useReducer. It also doesn't have very strong opinions about how you structure your application (what a framework does). That's what Next.js is for.

I agree with your overall sentiment though.

> It contains pages, routes, state management, caching etc.

React does not have routes or caching. It has about as much management as jQuery.

Not talking about React, I’m talking about effects. Two very different things. I love React, I don’t love hooks or effects.

I don’t think application state belongs inside the rendering machine.