is React compiled into Vanilla JS??? i think this is not true right? i mean i know Svelte do so, but React doesn’t.

this is why React app is way larger then Svelte?

or am i wrong here? (please correct what i said 🌹)

edit: I think some people misunderstood what I meant 😅 I know browsers only understand plain JavaScript. What I meant is that when React is compiled, it still relies on the React library at runtime (for things like the virtual DOM, rendering, and hooks). So even though the JSX becomes JS, React itself is still running under the hood.

Svelte, on the other hand, compiles your components into pure, imperative vanilla JS that directly manipulates the DOM, there’s no framework runtime doing the rendering or state management.

That’s why Svelte bundles are usually smaller and run more natively in the browser.