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React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React enables users to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in an application, and React will update and render just the right components when data changes. React is…
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React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React enables users to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in an application, and React will update and render just the right components when data changes. React is available free and open source under the MIT license.
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React has become a go-to choice for organizations looking to develop web interfaces and manage code bases efficiently. Its popularity stems from its ability to optimize the re-rendering process, making user interfaces with large data responsive. Users have found that React's component-based architecture and dynamic data handling simplify scalability and maintenance, addressing business problems related to website appearance and maintainability. The lightweight and testable nature of React components allows for seamless UI development and a better developer experience. Additionally, React's fast performance, achieved through its virtual DOM, ensures quick rendering and updating of components. With an active community offering resources and tutorials, React is widely adopted in various departments and organizations for developing websites, content management systems, and full-stack projects with cross-platform compatibility. Its flexibility, ease of use, and integration capabilities with other plugins make it suitable for single-page application development as well. As a result, React continues to gain popularity among developers, leading to its inclusion in upcoming projects and making it an attractive framework for recruitment purposes.
Versatile State Management: Users have praised React for its highly versatile state management capabilities, allowing developers to tailor their solutions based on specific requirements. This flexibility has been appreciated by many reviewers and has enabled them to effectively manage state in their applications.
Efficient Code Organization: Many users have highlighted React's ability to effectively organize code, resulting in a streamlined development process. This feature has allowed developers to maintain a structured and maintainable codebase, facilitating collaboration among team members and making it easier to understand and maintain the code over time.
Improved Performance with Virtual DOM: Reviewers have appreciated React's speed and efficiency, particularly with its virtual DOM implementation. The optimization of re-rendering and display updates has resulted in faster and smoother user interfaces. This improved performance contributes to a better overall user experience when using React-based applications.
Challenging state management: Some users have found React's state management challenging, particularly when dealing with deeply nested components and passing data up or down the component tree. This has led to difficulties in reading and maintaining code.
Steep learning curve: Several reviewers have expressed frustration with the learning curve associated with React, especially for those who are more familiar with other web development patterns. The higher learning curve of thinking in React has been a challenge for some users.
Cumbersome setup process: Setting up React applications, especially when using webpack, can be cumbersome according to user feedback. However, tools like Create React App can help expedite the setup process and mitigate this issue.
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August 30, 2019
State of the art frontend technology
Many teams in our organization are using React for both our web properties and several mobile apps (using React Native). It is the default client-side framework and mobile app stack for any new work as well. This lets engineers easily collaborate between different projects and also share components.
- Lots of compatible libraries and tools
- Fantastic developer experience and mental model
- Easy to layer abstractions and compose large pages from small components
- Without using tools like Gatsby or Next, React encourages large client-side bundles with no content available immediately.
- Usually, you need to put together your own "framework" from other tools since React is just the view layer.
- React Native is still maturing, though there is a lot of activity on that project latey.
- It has made hiring easy, as React developers are plentiful since it's a very popular technology.
- It has sped up development simply by virtue of being an excellent programming tool.
- It has standardized the way our organization shares components between teams.
I have also used Vue, Angular, and Ember for various projects. Out of the three, I am most intrigued by Vue. It takes a more beginner-friendly approach than React and changes some of the abstractions it uses to be more transparent to the user. It also comes with a lot more "built-in" than React. Angular is similar, but I've found it over-engineered and hard to work with. I have the least experience with Ember out of all of these, but it seems like another reasonable alternative with very strong conventions in place and an excellent CLI.
February 28, 2018
React changes the way your brain thinks about web app development
React has been used as a web front-end layer for a few different projects. We have a couple of web applications that we have chosen to use React for. It addressed the need for something that was forward-thinking and progressive in its approach to development. It allows us to structure the client-side logic and presentation code in a more maintainable way.
- React makes managing state both easy and hard (depending on the context of the situation). So I am using it as both a pro and a con.
- React makes organizing your code quite easy.
- React is fast.
- It can be used on the front end and also rendered server-side.
- The Ecosystem is enormous for being so young. Wide-spread adoption has helped this and gives you plenty of areas to find help.
- React Native is an amazing tool that gets you into Mobile Development using the skills you learn in React Web development
- React's state management can get hairy if you have a deeply nested component and need to pass things up or down the tree very far. This is where libraries like Redux come in, however.
- The progressive nature of its development and change cycles can leave information outdated online faster than other frameworks. This can make finding help or documentation on 3rd party sites frustrating.
- The learning curve on "thinking in React" can be slightly higher than other more familiar patterns of web development.
- Building an app in it can be cumbersome to set up with webpack, but things like Create React App can get you going in a jiffy.
- Development speed has probably sped up overall
- Organization of code has improved
- More flexible future development and maintenance options
- Vue and Blaze
When choosing a front-end framework, you have a ton of choices. There are numerous articles that will try to convince you this way or that about which one is better. I have used Blaze as a UI layer for Meteor Application development quite extensively and have found it to greatly aid development with its simplicity and speed of getting ideas off the ground. It does suffer in certain context from extra code necessary to get things working because of its older handlebars-like patterns. Logic takes more code. With React, you can accomplish a lot of basic tasks more succinctly because it's just javascript all around and you can incorporate broader logic right into the templating.
- Performing basic to moderately complex logic in your templating can be achieved and still visually readable from a code standpoint
- Organizing code from a data flow standpoint is much easier than with other framework
- Choosing a way to style components - there are so many different opinions on the matter
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If you call React Native a mobile interface ;) - But seriously though, React Native is amazing. It gets you the ability to build cross-platform, native Mobile apps that utilize over 90% of the same codebase.