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What is React and what is it good for?

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What is React and what is it good for?

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- [Presenter] Over the next several videos, we're going to talk about some of the conceptual aspects of working with React as well as the practical. So let's start with some basic questions and answers. First, what is React? React is a JavaScript library for creating user interfaces. It's used by a lot of companies and people, hugely popular right now. This includes of course, Facebook and Instagram. Facebook leads the effort to make React. You'll also see React in use on almost every Wordpress site which is probably going to be even more popular going forward with some of the efforts in that community. You'll also see it in many other companies like Airbnb, even Twitter and the New York Times. So, where does React work? This course is for Web Designers so we'll be concentrating mainly on the browser, which is powered by a specific renderer in React called ReactDOM. But you can also render React components on the server which are then served to the browser, using ReactDOMServer. And…

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