in modern web and mobile applications, powered by lightweight and sophisticated JavaScript libraries. Better user experience is now derived from the speed of the application and as more customers start using a particular technology, companies have to strive towards scalability.
is one such Javascript library that has achieved massive popularity within the domain of online, web-based businesses and that too for a perfectly good reason. The one thing that it does exceptionally well — carve out great looking user interfaces (UI). With the principle that HTML and JavaScript are bound to collaborate side-by-side, React was created with a business-forward mindset by leveraging faster web-page load speed, SEO friendliness and code reusability through combining the two technologies.
React was developed by Facebook in 2011 and given open-source status in 2013 under the controversial BSD3 license. Since its first release, React’s Github repository has generated 96,000 stars from developers and has amassed a community of almost 1200 active contributors, regularly pushing updates to enrich the library. With over 7M downloads in the month of May alone, this library has definitely proven its preference within technology companies.
Businesses were quick to grasp this technology because of the simplicity it offered to developers; that is, the ability to learn React in bare minimum time. Code reusability with hassle-free addition/modification of functionalities in the existing system meant allocating significantly less time and budget on development and building larger teams, respectively.
Top companies are truly enamored by React’s capabilities on a business standpoint. The list of companies utilizing React in production is there to prove it, just to name a few: Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Whatsapp, Salesforce, Uber, The New York Times, CNN, Dropbox, DailyMotion, IMDB, Venmo, and Reddit are the major league ones among the 100+ other medium to large scale companies.
React makes use of the ever popular HTML and Javascript frameworks by integrating them together. Extending these two technologies onto CSS facilitates the designing of advanced looking web-interfaces. React is a very API friendly library and is extensible across a multitude of frameworks. It works seamlessly with Google’s iconic Material Design and SemanticUI frameworks to leverage user interface development.
Facebook has created a dedicated debugging mechanism to isolate UI errors and bugs to the exact component causing it. The browser itself spits out relevant data about the erroneous line of code, web page and/or section to make the required correction, making the lives of developers a whole lot easier.
Businesses looking to create fault tolerant user interfaces will find ReactJS as the go-to choice. The component creation aspect of this library allows developers to efficiently perform unit testing, making sure no system crashes occur. Code reuse enables for curtailing time performing redundant tests. Adding such tests improves standards in code quality; hence, platform stability.
Author: Krunal Patel / Senior Software Engineer at KERN.ADLER Software
For references :
https://stackshare.io/posts/the-react-story
https://formidable.com/blog/2015/12/04/using-react-is-a-business-decision-not-a-technology-choice/
https://medium.com/unicorn-supplies/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-a-2017-comparison-c5c52d620176
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