What is React?

Information drawn from

• Fun with React - A quick overview

React is a free, unlicensed JS library focused in UI management.

Created by Facebook,React was initially released in 2013.

React has some unique core concepts. It has a virtual DOM, JSX components, input properties, and props. Also, each React component has a state and a lifecycle.

Virtual DOM

Instead of constantly having to work with the real DOM, which is very expensive, everything is handled virtually until we absolutely need to update the DOM.

JSX

It is officially an XML-like syntax that is close to HTML, but not quite HTML. It is actually JavaScript with HTML sprinkled in.

Example

class Welcome extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <h1>Hello, {this.props.name}</h1>;
  }
}

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Last update on 20 Jan 2020

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