React.js JavaScript Library

A React.js JavaScript Library is an open-source user interface JavaScript library that provides a view for data rendered as HTML.

• Context:
  • It can make use of React Context.
  • It can enable the creation of a cross-platform React.js App.
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• Example(s):
  • React v18.2.0 (2022-06-08)
  • React v15.3.1 (2016-08-19)
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Vue.js.
  • Angular.js.
• See: React Native, Single-Page Application, Libscore.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React#Computing Retrieved:2023-1-20.
  • React (JavaScript library) , a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, from Facebook
    • React Native, a mobile application framework created by Facebook
  • ReactOS, an open-source operating system compatible with Microsoft Windows

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library) Retrieved:2022-11-8.
  • React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components. It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page, mobile, or server-rendered applications with frameworks like Next.js. However, React is only concerned with state management and rendering that state to the DOM, so creating React applications usually requires the use of additional libraries for routing, as well as certain client-side functionality.

2016

• (ACM Staff, 2016) ⇒ CACM Staff. (2016). “React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 59(12). doi:10.1145/2980991
  • QUOTE: One of the long-standing ironies of user-friendly JavaScript frontends is that building them typically involved trudging through the DOM (Document Object Model), hardly known for its friendliness to developers. But now developers have a way to avoid directly interacting with the DOM, thanks to Facebook's decision to open source its React library for the construction of user interface components. React essentially manages to abstract away the DOM, thus simplifying the programming model while also — in a somewhat surprising turn — improving performance. The key to both advances is that components built from standard JavaScript objects serve as the fundamental building blocks for React's internal framework, thus allowing for greatly simplified composability. Once developers manage to get comfortable with building front ends in this way, they typically find they can more readily see what is going on while also enjoying greater flexibility in terms of how they structure and display data. ...

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