What is React?

What is React?

• Open source library for building user interfaces
• Not a framework
• Focus on UI
• Rich ecosysrem

Why learn React?

• Created and maintained by Facebook
• More than 100k starts on Github
• Huge community
• In demand skillset
• Component Based Architecture

• Reusable Code

• React is declarative
• Tell React what you want and React will build the actual UI
• React will handle efficiently updating and rendering of the components
• DOM updates are handles gracefully in React

More on why React

• Sieamlessly integrate react into any of your application
• Portion of your page or a complete page or even an entire application itself
• React native for mobile applications

Prerequisites

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals
• ES6
• JavaScript - 'this' keyword, filter, map and reduce
• ES6 - let & const, arrow functions, template literals, default parameters, object literals, rest and spread operators and destructuring assignment

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