Getting started with React
Just like Angular, React is component based. Angular is called a framework, whereas React is called a library. This means that Angular provides a lot of different functionalities and React provides one functionality, views. In the first two chapters, we used the HTTP service of Angular. React does not provide such a service, but you can use other libraries from npm instead.
Creating a component with JSX
A component is a class that has a render method. That method will render the view and is the replacement of the template in Angular. A simple component would look like the following:
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