Comment by swiftcoder
2 hours ago
> it's talking about the difference between an expensive tool and a cheap tool of the same kind, not two tools of different kinds entirely.
I have trouble seeing how React vs Astro is two tools of different kind entirely?
Astro uses React.
It can use other libraries too, or just plain HTML, but it’s not in the same space.
React can’t work on the backend by itself without Astro, Next.js, etc, or some hand-made micro-framework.