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The React framework

The React framework

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The React framework

- [Instructor] Angular is backed by Google. React is a little newer than Angular and comes from another internet giant, Facebook. It uses a virtual DOM to perform dynamic partial rendering of web content. It's been used by Microsoft, notably, in modern SharePoint pages. In React, everything is JavaScript and markup is represented as JavaScript through JSX compilation. It takes some getting used to. We can quickly look at the reactjs.org webpage. And like most of these other frameworks, there's a nice webpage with some getting started pages and tutorials, which will quickly get you up to speed if you want to learn more about React. But, as with all of these frameworks, there are many courses available that we have, if you want to learn more. It's worth bearing in mind that with React all you really get is a view engine. If you want to build a single page app with routing and navigation, and so on, you need to build it yourself or bring in some other framework like Reflux. But for our…

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