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> If you use a library that augments your style of work but doesn't change it then it's a library. Maybe a tool.

> If you use a library that replaces or changes your style of work then it is a framework.

I don't think that one's style of doing things have any merit in classifying what 200 people at Facebook had built. (Perhaps someone likes two-way binding. Backbone would be a library/tool and any Virtual DOM implementation would be a framework?)



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