1. React – What and Why
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
Describe what React is and why you would use it
Compare React to web projects built with just JavaScript
Create new React projects
Introduction
React.js (or just React, as it's also called and as it'll be referred to for the majority of this book) is one of the most popular frontend JavaScript libraries—maybe even the most popular one, according to a 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey. It is currently used by over 5% of the top 1,000 websites and compared to other popular frontend JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React is leading by a huge margin, when looking at key metrics like weekly package downloads via npm (Node ...
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