React concepts and jargon

- [Instructor] We know that React manages and displays data. … Let's talk a little bit about what that means conceptually. … We'll go over some of the concepts and jargon … that you'll experience when working with React … and reading through the documentation. … First of all, React helps to visualize data. … When we're creating web pages or working with CMS … as the generate pages for us, … in a sense we're just displaying data. … Our data might be products in a store, news articles, … photographs and other artwork but in a sense, … it's all data and of course at a lower level … we all work with web forms which have … their own data as well, the value in those fields. … React is a user interface library that makes it easier … to manage the data that's displayed in a user interface, … in other words, visualizing the data. … One way that React tries to make this easier … is by its declarative nature. … Often when we're building up interactive pages … with unassisted JavaScript, J Query or what have you, …