A Brief Introduction to React
Learn about the React library and use it in a simple example.
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React is a popular JavaScript library created and maintained by Facebook. React is focused on providing a comprehensive set of functions and tools to build the view layer in web applications. React offers a view abstraction focused on the concept of a component. A component can be a button, a form input, a simple container such as an HTML div
, or any other element in our user interface. The idea is that we should be able to construct the user interface of our application by just defining and composing highly reusable components with specific responsibilities.
What makes React different from other view libraries for the web is that it’s not bound to the