ReactJS is a popular JavaScript library provided by Facebook. The library helps in building attractive and highly interactive user interfaces. ReactJS offers reliable performance.
At the same time, it is extremely easy to code for programmers. Today, over 100,000 well-known sites, including the controversial New York Times, Pixnet, and Slack, which experience heavy traffic every day, employ this library.
Currently, ReactJS is a hot favorite among developers and its popularity charts are climbing every day. According to a 2016 survey conducted by StackOverflow developers, the popularity of ReactJS had increased by more than 300% in one year.
Let’s take a look at the features responsible for the immense popularity of ReactJS.
Quick Implementation
Being a library in place of a full-fledged framework makes ReactJS easy to implement with any project. ReactJS serves as a view layer. This makes it a promising option for quick adoption.
Quick Rendering
ReactJS has smart methods that help in mitigating the amount involved in the execution of DOM operations. The smart methods also help in optimizing and accelerating the updates process. These features account for overall fast rendering.
Code Stability
ReactJS employs downward data binding. This implies that ReactJS provides a view system through data flow in one direction. Facebook has inculcated this feature to ensure that any changes made to the child elements do not affect the parent elements or parent data.
The feature enables direct work with components and ensures code stability. The developers can easily change an object by simply modifying its state and applying the updates. ReactJS maintains overall code stability by ensuring the upgrade of only allowed components.
Ease of Use
ReactJS operates on JSX which has a syntax similar to HTML. The HTML syntax helps in easily creating JavaScript objects. The syntax also simplifies the process of creating React tree nodes having attributes.
Any individual having a familiarity with HTML can easily use JSX for building a ReactJS application. ReactJS code created with JSX is machine-readable. You can easily create compound components in a single compile-time verified file using ReactJS.
Code Reusability
With ReactJS, you can easily reuse code components. This saves a lot of time and valuable efforts for developers. You can easily manage system updates with ReactJS as every change does not affect each system component.
All ReactJS components are isolated, therefore, change in one component does not affect any other. The ability to reuse components makes coding more comfortable, easy, and precise for the developers.
Easy Debugging
ReactJS provides descriptive warnings. This allows new ReactJS developers to know exactly what went wrong. They can easily locate the error in the code and figure out the best way of fixing it. This makes debugging an easy and less time-consuming process with ReactJS.
Constantly Developing Library
ReactJS was released as a JavaScript-connected open source project by Facebook. The developers who use ReactJS get free access to many useful applications and tools provided by the community. Over 1,000 open-source contributors work with ReactJS library and enhance it every day.
In addition to this, ReactJS has outstanding support from the community, which is extended through conferences, online groups, and documentation sharing.
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