React and CSS: A special relationship

- [Instructor] Before I started working with React, … one of the things I had heard about … was the weird, to me, way that people worked with CSS. … So let's talk about the special relationship … between React and CSS. … Right off the top, know that you don't have to change … the way you work with CSS, … especially if you're integrating React … into an existing code base, … the way we're doing in this course. … You can still create classes on your components … and style them in CSS files. … That still works just fine, … and indeed, that's how we'll be working, … because we're starting with static-styled mock ups. … On relatively small projects, … you're unlikely to run into any problems with this approach. … One of the principles that drives how React is built … is separation of concerns. … You might think, of course, … that's why my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript … are all separate, and I put them in separate files. … But that's not the same thing. … That's more like separation of technologies. …