Introduction to React

Learn why we are using React to build the front end.

What is a React Application?

In the past, creating a web page involved putting together enough HTML markup to make the page look right and then styled using CSS. Later, Bootstrap and other libraries became popular for creating professional-looking pages with consistent styling. To create interactive user interfaces, the developer must use JavaScript, which is well suited to event-driven programming, where you can create and pass a function to be called when a particularly interesting thing happens.

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