1 Meeting React
This chapter covers
- Understanding what React is
- Solving problems with React
- Fitting React into your web applications
- Writing your first React web app: Hello World
React is the groundbreaking tool that web developers may not even know they need, but can’t let go of once they’ve tried. This is definitely true for the two authors of this book, as well as for many other enthusiastic web developers out there. React is immensely popular—and for good reason.
If you were doing web development in the early 2000s, all you needed was some HTML and a server-side language such as Perl or PHP. Ah, the good old days of putting in alert() boxes just to debug your frontend code. The internet has evolved a lot since then, and the complexity of ...
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