React Introduction

What React is, the problem it solves, how it updates the screen, and how to write your very first component.

Level

Beginner

Chapters

4

Exercises

1

Reading time

14 min

What you will cover

1. 1. What Is React?The problem React was built to solve and why so many teams reach for it.
2. 2. How React Updates the ScreenElements, the virtual DOM, and what actually happens when state changes.
3. 3. Setting Up a React ProjectThe realistic ways to start a React project today, and what each one gives you.
4. 4. Your First ComponentWrite, render and edit a real React component in the browser.

Up next after this one: JSX in React