What React Is and Why It Is Used
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When building a website, you usually want the page to respond to user actions like clicking buttons, submitting forms, updating data, or showing new content without reloading the page. As projects grow, managing these updates with plain JavaScript becomes harder and harder.
React is a JavaScript library designed to solve this problem. It helps you build user interfaces by describing what the UI should look like based on data, and then keeps the screen in sync when that data changes.
Instead of manually selecting elements and updating them, React lets you think in terms of components, small, reusable pieces of the interface. Each component describes a part of the screen, and React efficiently updates it when something changes.
React focuses only on the user interface layer. It does not replace JavaScript, HTML, or CSS. It works on top of them. You still write JavaScript logic and use familiar web concepts, but in a cleaner, more structured way to organize UI code.
This approach makes applications easier to understand, maintain, and scale as they grow. That's why React is used in real products ranging from small dashboards to large, complex web applications.
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