Welcome

This is an opinionated introduction to React and some of the technologies often used with React.

Why use a JS framework?

JavaScript frameworks make it easier to develop and scale web-projects since they provide lots of convenient helpers like data binding (for example binding a variable to a text input) and structuring your application into components.

Current JS frameworks

React.js

React is developed by Facebook and very widely used. You'll also find tons of ready-to-use components on the web.

Next.js

Next.js builds upon React.js and enables server-side rendering or static site generation for better performance and SEO. It also abstracts some of the logic further away; for example, it uses file-based routing.

Vue.js

Vue.js is another popular JS framework; its popularity rose quickly and it might be considered easier to get started with compared to React and Angular.

Angular

Angular is being developed by Google and is heavily used for enterprise applications.

Svelte

Svelte is rather new and easy to learn. You don't need to write as much boilerplate as with other frameworks and it doesn't use a virtual DOM.