React is a library and can be used as a thin layer over plain JS. It's just often not used that way.
As with all libraries, you still have to be good at organizing your code for it to help you in the long-run. That's a lot of the appeal (and problem) of full frameworks: it decides how to organize your code for you.
As with all libraries, you still have to be good at organizing your code for it to help you in the long-run. That's a lot of the appeal (and problem) of full frameworks: it decides how to organize your code for you.