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Posted by troy beckett
troy beckett
12,035 Points

What is react.js

I've seen a lot of things on react.js and as I understand it's something to do with facebook. On their website they say that react is "A JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY FOR BUILDING USER INTERFACES". How would you simply sum up react.js? I've read about it on their websites and all it's features. However I'm struggling to work out why you would use it, and how it works in an application? What is it's purpose?

Also is Meteor another version of react.js?

2 Answers

Miguel Palau
Miguel Palau
24,176 Points
Miguel Palau
Miguel Palau
24,176 Points

Actually there's quite a good article by Andrew Chalkley on the blog.

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/react-hype-real

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

It's a javascript library created by the facebook team. Another thing fb invented is hhvm. Which their version of uber php.

Angular is by google and very popular. Use the tools your most comfortable with.