tannaciousxp/react-components

Understanding react components

React-Components

This repo is for the purpose of learning about ReactJS.

by Peter X. Tan

React

React is "a JavaScript library for building user interfaces," that gives you tools for interacting with the DOM that are cleaner and more performant than with raw JavaScript or jQuery.

React is declarative, rather than imperative. Imperative code, like raw JavaScript or jQuery, says how something ought to occur. Declarative code (HTML being an example) states what something ought to be, and hides the how away from the developer. Therefore, in React, you write components that looks a lot like HTML, and the React library, hidden from you, handles the details of how these components are actually rendered to the DOM.

Think of React components as superpowered HTML tags that:

• Can be given information for how they ought to behave
• Can communicate with each other
• Can be composed, resued and nested together to build small to very large applications

Setup

npm install -g live-server

In a separate terminal window run the following command

live-server