React is a “declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces”, as defined by its creators. In simple words, it allows you to create a fast, simple and scalable frontend for web applications.

A relatively young and new framework, ReactJS has taken the web development world to new heights. Created initially as an internal tool by Facebook engineers, the framework soon went open source, which allowed it to further grow and become widely adopted among individual developers.

The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey finds that React is one of the most loved framework among the frameworks, libraries and other technologies out there like Angular, Vue, etc.

Reasons To Choose React JS:

Easy To Learn:

• React is easy to learn and that is one of the most important reasons to choose this library. As it doesn’t take much time to learn this technology, you can quickly begin to build things with it.

• If technology is hard to learn, you will probably find it difficult to start. That happens all the time when we start learning new things, it’s human nature. We avoid things that are hard to learn.

• The learning process becomes much easier when you have great JavaScript skills.

Development Efficiency:

• React allows you to write efficient and clean code, by breaking the project into separate components which can be reused in the code and increase the productivity of developers.

Declarative UI:

• Reactjs is the best for creating engaging and interactive user interfaces for mobile and web applications.

• In an event of data modification, Reactjs appropriately renders and updates just the right components. It generates a simple view for each state of the application. This feature makes the code more readable and simpler to debug.

Virtual DOM:

• Virtual DOM is one of the most important characteristics that facilitate fast and flexible application development using Reactjs.

• Its memory reconciliation algorithm enables React to replicate a web page in its virtual memory. Thus, create a virtual DOM which is a virtual representation of the original DOM.

• With every modification in the web application, the virtual DOM re-renders the entire user interface. In a virtual DOM representation, only the components that have actually changed are updated and not all the components.

• Thus, Reactjs makes the app development process faster and cost-effective.

High Performance And SEO Friendly:

• Designed with performance in mind, the library’s core features, such as virtual DOM and server-side rendering, allow you to create large-scale apps which are really fast.

• Due to these features React projects are better optimized for search engines. Moreover, high speed and performance, contribute to a better SEO, and also provide an overall better user experience.

Easy Transition To React Native:

• React Native is a mobile development framework, based on React. Thus, it is easy for React JS developers to switch to React Native and create mobile apps with a native look and feel. Moreover, some parts of your React web app can be reused in a React Native mobile app, which improves the development speed.

Strong Community Support:

• One of the biggest reasons why you should choose React for frontend development is that it has very strong community support.

• Being initially developed at Facebook, the library is still supported and maintained by the company as well as by more than 1,000 independent contributors worldwide (Open Source). Thanks to the vibrant community and solid corporate support, React is a reliable and up-to-date technology.