Introduction to React
Explore how React functions as a JavaScript library to build interactive user interfaces using components and state management. Understand the benefits of React in managing complex frontend scenarios, especially when integrating AI features that require dynamic updates and reliable rendering.
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The frontend framework landscape
A frontend can be built without any framework at all, using plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to manipulate the page directly. That approach works for small, mostly static pages, but it becomes hard to manage once an interface has many moving parts: several pieces of state that all affect what's on screen, updates that need to happen consistently across different sections, and markup that has to stay in sync with data by hand.
Frameworks and libraries exist to solve that problem. A handful dominate frontend work today: React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte are the ones most teams choose among, alongside meta-frameworks built on top of them, like Next.js on ...