Frameworks and Libraries

The corollary to that last statement in the previous lesson is this: When you think there should be a better way to do something, search for it because there probably is.

There were probably a few things that stood out to you as inefficient as we were building our components. For example, document.getElementsByClassName is a long thing to type every time you want to select something. Keeping track of the state globally seems messy. Implementing our own regex rules for validation is hard.

Libraries ...