Some React.js Basic Knowledge

Md Khalid Hossain
2 min readMay 7, 2021

What is react??

The simple answer is, React is a JavaScript library created by Facebook (Jordan Walke, a software engineer), React is a User Interface (UI) library, and React is a tool for building UI Components.

otherwise, we can say React is a js library created for building fast and interactive user interfaces for web and mobile applications. And also it is an open-source, components-based, front-end library responsible only for the application's view layer. In Model View Controller (MVC) architecture, the view layer is responsible for how the app looks and feels.

MVC architecture

Let’s take a look at an Instagram webpage example, entirely built using React, to get a better understanding of how React works exactly. As the pics below show that, React divides the UI into multiple components, which makes the code easier to debug. This way, each component has it property and function.

Instagram

Now that we know what React is let’s move on and see why React is the most popular front-end library for web application development.

Now the other question is why react???

React’s popularity today has ac

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Md Khalid Hossain

A learner, love to leran and share my programing knowledge.