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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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February 07, 2023
React: A Comprehensive Review of the Popular JavaScript Library
Score 7 out of 10
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- React is excellent at handling dynamic updates to user interfaces. React, for instance, can effectively refresh the user interface (UI) in real-time as the user interacts with the application or as fresh data is obtained from an API.
- Developers can simply design reusable UI components with React, which can then be combined to create complex user interfaces. As a result, development time is cut down and the codebase is simpler to manage.
- With the help of React, developers may implement server-side rendering, which can speed up the application's loading time and make it simpler for search engines to scan and index the information.
- For developers who are new to the library or to front-end programming in general, React has a relatively steep learning curve. Because of this, it could be challenging for developers to use React to its full potential.
- It can be difficult to manage the state and interactions between components as React applications grow increasingly complicated. As a result, the code could be challenging to read and maintain.
- Due to React's restricted collection of built-in functionality, some tasks may be challenging to complete without the use of extra libraries or custom code. For instance, handling routing, which is a frequent requirement for many applications, is not supported natively by React.
May 04, 2022
React for fast-response Single-Page-Apps.
- Fast and Responsive
- Excellent state management for components
- Wide community support for extensibility
- Wide range of UI components available on npm for React
- Mobile browsers also support React
- Easy component creation process
- Understanding re-renders of pages can be improved
- Learning curve is a bit steep if you never worked on declarative programming before
September 13, 2021
React - A light weight JavaScript Library
Score 7 out of 10
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- it's a component based framework that uses JSX to quick rendering HTML content and is responsive to the browser.
- it supports mobile devices also.
- it provides flexibility to test UI and functionality on mobile devices simultaneously development cycle. basically, it generates a URL that can be used on mobile devices if you are connected to the same wifi network.
- flexibility to create your own custom user components that can used with jsx (that allows you to code with JavaScript on your) HTML page.
- UI looks very clean.
- Need of improvement of documentation.
- React doesn't use fully HTML content need to understand JSX syntax.
- Sometimes state management are getting more complex for large scale applications.
July 21, 2021
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- React is easier to understand
- It can handle abrupt situations well
- It is being widely used
- I don't find anything
January 02, 2020
Faster UI rendering using React components
Score 10 out of 10
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- User Interface rendering is better than any other framework.
- UI code is simplified. It's simplified to pass the state across different components.
- React has room for improvement for simplifying the observer pattern.
- React is just a library but should be a framework with a good scope for developing full-fledged IDE.
September 30, 2019
Fabulous sites that React to your needs and users
- Modular development.
- Server-side rendering.
- Small learning curve.
- I would like to see a separation between React as a javascript tool attached to the DOM and JSX the Virtual DOM rendering engine. With that separation, static sites (which are already rendered and don't need JSX) would be able to be even smaller.
- A React app might get messy producing lots of re-renders.
August 30, 2019
State of the art frontend technology
- 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.
March 28, 2019
React - Scalable UIs and Happy Developers
- React is fantastic for building performant user interfaces. Our web app is snappy and great for our customers.
- React has the philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well which is the view layer of the application. This makes it incredibly intuitive and flexible for developers to use.
- React has lead the way in being able to write modular and structured code. It is a drastic improvement since the days of spaghetti jQuery code.
- React has an unmatched community. The amount of tools and libraries available is fantastic, and there plenty of solutions available online for common problems.
- Since React only does one area of the web app (the view layer), this means the developer must patch together the rest of their web app instead of having a single go-to solution. Additional things you need include are routing and state management.
- React was the leader for building web apps using component architecture. This means that it did get some things wrong, such as making complex classes and having some things difficult to understand. Other libraries have benefited from the learnings of React.
- The React world moves quickly, and this can mean that code can become outdated quickly. This rapid change can be fatiguing for developers.
December 22, 2018
React: My first reflex when HTML isn't enough
- Intuitive templating language (JSX) that provides a dynamic rendering of HTML elements, along with an easy model to tie back to JavaScript implemented in your components.
- Component-based views that guide the developer to modular and reusable pieces to your interface.
- Streamlined state management with immutable properties and mutable state within each component with one-day data-binding to tie them to the view
- When you hear someone say "React is a LIBRARY, not a FRAMEWORK", they're right. It's only the View layer of the application and nothing else. Some developers get this wrong, put too much application logic into their React components, then end up with no separation of concerns.
- It's so easy to get started that it's hard to realize when you're doing it wrong. Developers who are early into React can come up with issues like nesting the Props and State of their components wrong, leading to issues like re-rendering all of a list of items rather than just one item.
- It's so ubiquitous that there are certain developers I've met who have never done direct DOM manipulation. While it's easy to make something in React in most cases, developers need to make sure they know how to use the Js API as well as the convenient library.
November 25, 2018
React = Winning
- State drive UI & UX
- Pairs well with React Semantic UI
- Pairs well with MeteorJS
- Helps you to structure/organize code in a sensible way
- Learning curve
- Frequent changes (but they're always good about backwards compatibility)
August 03, 2018
React: fast efficient generation of HTML code
- React is designed around the notion of generated html as opposed to templated html. This provides more flexibility in building elements on a page, and allows developers to create html that is programmatically configured based on runtime considerations.
- React uses JSX, which is HTML templating integrated into javascript code. This simplifies the generation of complex structures, especially those that vary based on runtime and interactive data.
- React is more efficient because it generates a virtual DOM rather than directly building in in the actual DOM. By building 'offline' in this manner, the DOM generation is faster. After building, it can be installed in one operation.
- React only builds those portions of the display that have changed, making display updates more efficient.
- Debugging React is challenging. Bugs in react code generate stack traces internal to React and it is often totally unclear how it relates to the code you actually wrote.
- Relating your React elements to corresponding DOM elements is difficult. The intentional separation of virtual and actual DOM also makes it difficult to map the elements to the structures in the DOM. This is partially ameliorated by the use of the React dev tool, which provides a DOM-like view of the React elements, but the tool still does not provide a direct correspondence with the DOM that is often necessary to figure out why something isn't right.
- Because JSX is React-specific and not a language feature, a special compilation process is necessary to convert JSX code to normal JS. Coming from a C++ background, compiling things doesn't bother me, but many JS developers are used to a less structured development.
March 03, 2018
A library that's hard to miss for any UI developer
- Solid backing by large organization (Facebook) thats committed to keeping the development on the project. In my mind, this is the number one priority for any library because without this: time is wasted on getting up-to speed on a library that you will never use, have a codebase with a library thats hard to maintain because few years down the lane, hiring devs to maintain an unsupported library is very difficult.
- As with any libraries, open source community's support is critical for success of any framework because this allows for more pre-built components that could be used right out-of-box => makes Development using React a breeze.
- React's Stateful and Stateless components make organizing your code a breeze. These components would also allow for writing clean Unit Tests on the logic.
- React's component lifecycle. It offers a variety of lifecycle methods, that allows for handling different scenarios of loading and manipulating data in the UI.
- I found React's documentation very well maintained with plenty of examples explaining each feature.
- Responsiveness is a very important criteria in selecting a UI and React is very responsive. It does some neat optimizations on re-rendering using virtual DOM and would only re-render parts of the DOM that changed. These optimizations makes React Applications feel really fast.
- React Native would allow for building applications that span across web and mobile interfaces (iOS and Android). This makes learning React even more enticing, because using a single library, you could build applications that span across Web, iOS and Android.
- create-react-app is an effort by Facebook (creators of React) that makes getting started with React really easy. It does all the heavy lifting of configurations for you and allow you to focus on just development.
- Small footprint, minified React + React DOM is under 150Kb, that makes loading UI's with react really fast.
- React + Enzyme (backed by Airbnb) + Sinon + Mocha + Chai makes unit testing the UI components fun and improves the overall maintainability of the project.
- React could get very frustrating unless you start thinking in React. React enforces a top down hierarchy of data flow and offers no way for the data to communicate backwards. This is a big shift in mindset coming from Angular 1.x. This constraint is really a big factor that determines how to organize your code and how you might want to write your own Components.
- Because of the self imposed top down hierarchy, you end up having a heavy parents with dumb children. Because parents would need to the bulk of the work, they usually manage the state, while passing callbacks to the child components. If not properly designed, this could lead to the callback hell, where you could have callbacks passing through like multiple children.
- As with any library, you will have to iterate through multiple designs to come up with a ways to avoid "heavy parent components" in React. One obvious solution is using some open source tools like Redux, but we opted for a variation of it to suit our needs.
February 28, 2018
React changes the way your brain thinks about web app development
- 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.