Why learn React?

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Why learn React?

Outdated frameworks previously used for writing front-end applications

  1. Vanilla JavaScript
  2. JQuery

Reasons for React

  1. React is a very good framework.
    1. It abstracts away complexity - compared to using plain JavaScript.
    2. Developed at Facebook.
  2. Came up with the idea of Virtual DOM.
    1. Angular was inspired by it.
  3. It is already the standard in the industry.
  4. Other alternatives are based on React.
    1. e.g. NextJS

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