Development
Interface Building Blocks
React
A library for building app-style interfaces from reusable pieces, so screens stay consistent and quick to update.
- Category
- Development
- Stack role
- Development
- Tool type
- Library
- Best suited for
- Interactive Web Applications
- Hosting model
- Not Applicable
- Made by
- Meta
- First released
- 2013
- License
- MIT
What is React?
React, in plain English.
React is a JavaScript library for building the screens people see and use in a web application. Instead of designing every page from scratch, you build small reusable pieces, such as a search box, a restaurant card or a rating badge, and assemble them into pages.
The real benefit is that those pieces stay in sync. When the information behind one changes, say a new review comes in, React updates just that part of the screen, without reloading the whole page. That is what makes an app feel quick and responsive.
React was released by Facebook, now Meta, in 2013, and is free and open source. It is one of the most widely used ways to build web applications, which means plenty of developers know it and plenty of tools work with it. That makes your project easier to maintain and hand on later.
In our stack
Why we use React.
We use React for the interface of our custom applications, like the Reno restaurant directory platform. Reusable pieces mean a screen designed once looks and behaves the same everywhere, and new features reuse what already exists instead of starting over.
Reusable Pieces
Build a component once and use it across the whole application.
Fast Updates
Only the part of the screen that changed gets redrawn, so apps feel responsive.
Easy to Staff
A huge community means developers and help are easy to find.
Related tools
Works well with React.
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