Understanding the ASP.NET React Template

Overview

React was Facebook’s answer to helping more people work on the Facebook code base and deliver features quicker. React worked so well for Facebook that they eventually open sourced it. Today, React is a mature library for building component-based frontends (client-side code that runs in the browser); it is extremely popular and has a massive community and ecosystem.

ASP.NET Core was first released in 2016 and is now a mature open-source and cross-platform web application framework. It’s an excellent choice for building backends (application code that runs on the server) that interact with databases such as SQL Server. It also works well in cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.