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4. A Few More Words: Advanced React

Frank Zammetti1 
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Pottstown, PA, USA
 

In the last chapter, we began looking at React, the popular JavaScript application framework. There, you were introduced to the basic concepts that every React developer deals with.

In this chapter, we’ll delve a little bit deeper, looking at a few more concepts that are important when writing React apps. Perhaps most importantly is JSX, which provides us a better way (in most developers’ opinion, I think it’s fair to say) to write React apps.

A Better Way to Write React Code: JSX

JSX, which stands for JavaScript XML, is an extension to the JavaScript language that adds XML ...

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