React, sometimes referred to as a frontend JavaScript framework, is a JavaScript library created by Facebook. React is a tool for building UI components.

Features

The salient features of React library are as follows −

  • Solid base architecture
  • Extensible architecture
  • Component based library
  • JSX based design architecture
  • Declarative UI library

Benefits

Few benefits of using React library are as follows −

  • Easy to learn
  • Easy to adept in modern as well as legacy application
  • Faster way to code a functionality
  • Availability of large number of ready-made component
  • Large and active community
  • Setting up a React Environment

Applications

Few popular websites powered by React library are listed below −

  • Facebook, popular social media application
  • Instagram, popular photo sharing application
  • Netflix, popular media streaming application
  • Code Academy, popular online training application
  • Reddit, popular content sharing application