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React is a popular, open-source JavaScript library (not a framework) used for building user interfaces, particularly for single-page applications (SPAs). It is developed and maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers.
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React is a JavaScript library created by Facebook for building user interfaces, primarily for single-page applications. It allows developers to create reusable components that manage their own state. Key benefits of React include a component-based architecture for modular code, the virtual DOM for efficient updates, a declarative UI for more readable code, one-way data binding for predictable data flow, and a strong community and ecosystem with abundant resources and tools.
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React follows a component-based architecture (the user interface is broken down into reusable components that manage their own state), making it easy to maintain and develop code. Components can be independently managed, helping developers to reuse and share the logic across applications.
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**Key characteristics of React**:
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React enables developers to create large web applications that can update and render efficiently (through a virtual Document Object Model (Virtual DOM)) in response to data changes. This technique enhances application performance, ensuring smooth and responsive user experiences.
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-**Declarative**: You describe the desired state of your UI based on data, and React handles updating the actual DOM efficiently.
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-**Component-based**: Build reusable and modular UI elements (components) that manage their own state and logic.
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-**Virtual DOM**: React uses a lightweight in-memory representation of the actual DOM, allowing it to perform updates selectively and efficiently.
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-**JSX**: While not mandatory, JSX provides a syntax extension that allows you to write HTML-like structures within your JavaScript code, making UI development more intuitive.
A React node is a term that encompasses any output that a React component can return. This can include strings, numbers, React elements, or even arrays of nodes and null or undefined. When talking about React nodes, we refer to anything a React component might return from its render method.
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React elements are the building blocks of React applications. They represent DOM elements, such as divs, spans, and buttons. React elements are immutable, meaning that they cannot be changed once they are created. This makes them easy to reason about and helps to prevent errors.
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React Component may be a function or a class that can accept props and return a React Element. It encapsulates the logic and state to produce the UI, and can be reused throughout an application.
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A React Node is any renderable unit in React, such as an element, string, number, or `null`. A React Element is an immutable object describing what to render, created using JSX or `React.createElement`. A React Component is a function or class that returns React Elements, enabling the creation of reusable UI pieces.
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