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F. ZammettiModern Full-Stack Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8811-5_3

3. Client-Side Adventures: React

Frank Zammetti1  
(1)
Pottstown, PA, USA
 

In the previous two chapters, we talked about Node and its good friend NPM, two of the most popular tools for building server-side applications. Now, let’s look at the client side of the fence.

The big joke – which is less a joke and more an observation really – is that there seems to be a new framework/library/toolkit for building web-based client applications every day. That is both the benefit and the curse of having such a vibrant development community! But, over the last couple of years, a few popular ...

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