REACT: The most popular front-end framework, in snippet!

React was introduced in May, 2013 by Facebook Engineer, Jordan Walke. It changed the focus back to one way data binding from 2 way data binding popularized by Angular.

Two way data binding makes the work easier but at the same time increase complexity in understanding a bigger project. At times you are unable to understand what caused a particular change. One way data binding is much simpler in that sense and supports model as the only source to determine the actual value of a field.

What makes React popular is its simplicity and ease of use. You can integrate it with your existing projects and start creating react components. You can think of it as an advanced version of jQuery in that sense.

Scalability: The biggest and major example of React’s scalability is Facebook. Facebook has built and uses over 50,000 react components and you can see its fast and grows without any performance issues.

Flexibility: React combines well with most of your front-end code hence proving you with flexibility to keep your backend in popular PHP frameworks like Laravel, Symphony or build a backend with Node.js

Faster Development: Reusability of React components and a strong community helps in getting faster turnaround time while using React as a front-end. You can find almost all popular features like infinite scroll, advanced data grids, chart, map, notification, tool tip, image editor etc

There to stay

The most important question any developer should consider before starting on any new technology is the future. With flexibility to work with multiple backend frameworks and support of a company like Facebook, React is there to stay!

Some of the amazing websites using React apart from Facebook are Instagram, Netflix, Airbnb, Asana, Dropbox, BBC, New York Times, Walmart, Flipboard and OkCupid.