Chapter 1. Meet React
This chapter covers
- Introducing React
- Some of React’s high-level concepts and paradigms
- The virtual DOM
- Components in React
- React for teams
- Tradeoffs of using React
If you work as a web engineer in the tech industry, chances are you’ve heard of React. Maybe it was somewhere online like Twitter or Reddit. Maybe a friend or colleague mentioned it to you or you heard a talk about it at a meetup. Wherever it was, I bet that what you heard was probably either glowing or a bit skeptical. Most people tend to have a strong opinion about technologies like React. Influential and impactful technologies tend to generate that kind of response. For these technologies, often a smaller number of people initially “get it” before the ...
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