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React Key Concepts

React Key Concepts

By : Maximilian Schwarzmüller
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React Key Concepts

React Key Concepts

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By: Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Overview of this book

As the most popular JavaScript library for building modern, interactive user interfaces, React is an in-demand framework that’ll bring real value to your career or next project. But like any technology, learning React can be tricky, and finding the right teacher can make things a whole lot easier. Maximilian Schwarzmüller is a bestselling instructor who has helped over two million students worldwide learn how to code, and his latest React video course (React — The Complete Guide) has over six hundred thousand students on Udemy. Max has written this quick-start reference to help you get to grips with the world of React programming. Simple explanations, relevant examples, and a clear, concise approach make this fast-paced guide the ideal resource for busy developers. This book distills the core concepts of React and draws together its key features with neat summaries, thus perfectly complementing other in-depth teaching resources. So, whether you've just finished Max’s React video course and are looking for a handy reference tool, or you've been using a variety of other learning materials and now need a single study guide to bring everything together, this is the ideal companion to support you through your next React projects. Plus, it's fully up to date for React 18, so you can be sure you’re ready to go with the latest version.
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Introduction

React.js (or just React, as it's also called and as it'll be referred to for the majority of this book) is one of the most popular frontend JavaScript libraries—maybe even the most popular one, according to a 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey. It is currently used by over 5% of the top 1,000 websites and compared to other popular frontend JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React is leading by a huge margin, when looking at key metrics like weekly package downloads via npm (Node Package Manager), which is a tool commonly used for downloading and managing JavaScript packages.

Though it is certainly possible to write good React code without fully understanding how React works and why you're using it, you should always aim to understand the tools you're working with as well as the reasons for picking a certain tool in the first place.

Therefore, before considering anything about its core concepts and ideas or reviewing example code, you first need to understand what React actually is and why it exists. This will help you understand how React works internally and why it offers the features it does.

If you already know why you're using React, why solutions like React in general are being used instead of vanilla JavaScript (i.e. JavaScript without any frameworks or libraries, more on this in the next section), and what the idea behind React and its syntax is, you may of course skip this section and jump ahead to the more practice-oriented chapters later in this book.

But if you only think that you know it and are not 100% certain, you should definitely follow along with this chapter first.

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