Javascript library developed by software engineers at meta.
Developers at meta were facing syncing issue with facebook chat UI. To resolve this issue, a developer created this library and later on it was made open source
Software companies like Unsplash and Khan Academy started using react with this React JS became popular.
The code is based on browser completely for rendering the webpages. That is code written is coded in react-js and then the browser creates the webpage from it.
Note:
- React JS isnt completely configured it still has some issues with the SEO (Search iengine optimisation).
class
is a keyword in JS which is further extended in react which is why we useclassName
.