The final library we're going to look at is React. React is a very popular library that came along just as AngularJS was getting long in the tooth and before Angular was ready for prime-time. It's very popular in some circles. It's based on ES6 with some extensions specific to React.
Much of it will look familiar to you, just based on what you've seen so far in this chapter and especially if you've done any serious web application development.
Getting started with React is less straightforward than getting up and running with Angular. Angular, under the hood, is probably more complicated, but Angular CLI smooth out a lot of the issues so you never (or rarely) actually see the complexity as a developer. React is more of a library than a complete framework, so you can end up having to make a lot more decisions in order to get up and running. Thankfully, while there are many ways to get there and none are as central to the project as Angular CLI is to Angular (they...