React Introduction Tutorial
By Saket Bhatnagar••Beginner to Intermediate
introduction
- 1ReactJS is a JavaScript library made to build user interfaces – like buttons, forms, and pages on websites.
- 2It was created by engineers at Facebook to make their apps faster and easier to manage.
- 3React helps you build single-page applications (SPAs), where the page doesn't reload again and again.
- 4Instead of writing one big messy file, you break your UI into small, reusable parts called components.
- 5It uses something called a Virtual DOM to update only the parts of the page that change – this makes it super fast.
- 6You write code using JSX – a mix of HTML and JavaScript – which looks easy and feels natural.
- 7React makes sure data flows in one direction (top to bottom), so it's easier to track changes.
- 8You can also manage your app's data using something called state and props.
- 9React can be used with other tools like Redux, Next.js, or even mobile apps with React Native.
- 10It's super popular today – used in real-world apps like Instagram, Netflix, and of course, Facebook.