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What is React?

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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July 21, 2021
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In the project that I am working on, the front end of the main website is built with React JS. We have been working on it for the last 3 …
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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…

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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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The most common users of React are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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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Score 8 out of 10
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I have also used Angular before coming to React. Web apps created with React are much faster than Angular because React is based on virtual DOM which reloads only those components of the web page that change and everything else remains the same. Angular's learning curve is also slightly steeper than React.
Score 10 out of 10
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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.
Score 10 out of 10
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There are other options for building SPAs, and the two most common aside from React are Vue and Angular. React has been the leader of the pack for a while and has been an innovator. Angular is good for companies that want an opinionated framework so that it standardizes practices. However, Angular is known to be more difficult to work with and unnecessarily complex. Vue is seen as taking the best from React and Angular, and it is built for incremental upgrades. Vue has a passionate and growing user base, but it hasn't quite caught React in popularity.
Erik Ralston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Like most people, I started in serious client-side web development with the introduction of jQuery, the first robust library for cross-browser DOM manipulation. React provides a much closer WYSIWYG translation from the declarative JSX template to HTML elements compared to using procedural programming to do the same task. While it lacks the built-in capabilities like animation, it does have excellent third-party plugins for it - and most things can be accomplished via CSS nowadays.

React is one of many advanced client-side frameworks that are currently dominating front-end development. Angular and Vue would be the other noteworthy competitors.

Angular is comparatively heavy, but provides more of a "full toolbox" than React; however, its version changes and opinionated approach means it's a challenge to just bolt on to the project even if it likely would deliver some line-of-business (LOB) type solutions more rapidly.

Vue is React's real competition. It provides a loosely coupled set of libraries, a somewhat cleared format of separate component code, and support onboarding into a code base. Its community and developer familiarity are not as mature as React, so you'll have a harder time finding a Vue dev. Finally, Vue is independent (whereas React is supported by Facebook) -- that may influence some people.
Anudeep Palanki | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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  • Angular and Vue
While this is a widely contested debate with various blog posts and benchmarks all over the place, its really a personal choice to determine what works for the team. Coming from a Angular 1.x background, I decided to try a new framework when Angular 2.x was announced and at that time React is gaining popularity and Vue hasn't taken off yet. Compared to Angular 1.x and Vue (hybrid of React and Angular) that split the logic from the html templates, I loved the way React breaks code into components using the jsx syntax. In my mind, this allows for cleaner components and easier maintenance.
Joshua Weaver | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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  • 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.
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