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JavaScript React Router 4 Basics Getting Started with React Router What is Routing?

Posted by Andrew Bruner
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Andrew Bruner
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At what point does a library become a framework?

I've heard the distinction between JavaScript libraries and frameworks argued over many times, but I'm curious: at what point does a library become a framework?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The most generally accepted distinction is known as "inversion of control". A library is a collection of resources that your program can use as it runs. Your program is in control.

But a framework generally is the control program and you supply components that it uses to customize what happens.