An intro to React

Joshua Lin (@konekoya)

What is React?

• A JavaScript library  for building UI
• Maintained by Facebook and the JS community
• Open-sourced in May 2013
• React repo

Why React?

• Flexibility: SSR, VR, mobile, desktop APP
• Developer experience: good error message and toolings
• React is just the plain old JavaScript
• Maintain by full-time Facebook employees
• FB is using React in their production Apps with more than 30,000 components.
• Single page Application (SPA) is fast and the future of Frontend
• With more 110,000 + stars on GitHub, 1,200+ contributors , over 3 millions npm downloads / week

Let's code a list together!