React
React is a JavaScript library for building component-based user interfaces and originally came out of Meta. The library shines especially when the UI is strongly driven by data and you want to keep parts reusable across different pages and features.
Applications are fast and efficient.
Piles of interactivity.
Strong for a dynamic, data-driven UI.
What is React?
As an Glossary · In briefopen sourceOpen source is software whose source code is available under a licence that allows others to use, study, modify and redistribute it.Read more JavaScript Glossary · In brieflibraryA library is a collection of reusable software code for a defined task. An application can call that code to use existing functionality.Read more, React benefits from thousands of developers actively thinking about improvements. That keeps the project current and means issues are often solved quickly. React originated at Facebook. Today, major online companies such as Instagram, Netflix, Uber, and Pinterest use it as an important Glossary · In brieffrontendThe frontend is the part of a website or application that users see and operate, such as pages, buttons, forms and interactive screens.Read more library. So this is not a technology that is going away any time soon, and your application can keep running on it for years.
Manageable and safe
React is based on small modules that you can combine as you see fit. That gives a lot of freedom when building software and screens. It saves us headaches, and you benefit directly because other developers can step in and continue building the application much more easily later on.
Why you will love React too
Users want direct feedback in the browser, and React is especially strong at handling dynamic data smoothly. Once modules are loaded, React does not need to fetch them again and only looks at what changed on the current page. That means less unnecessary work and more processing room for everything else.
Know your qualities
React is strong in speed, Glossary · In briefscalabilityScalability is the extent to which software, infrastructure or a process can handle more or less work without major rebuilding or unacceptable performance loss.Read more, and interactivity, especially when those qualities are central to the success of your application. But the world is broader than web frontends alone. Chat systems, mail clients, or systems that need to scale vertically and absorb heavy traffic peaks can run into the limits of React. That is why we also keep alternatives ready, such as Elixir/Phoenix, for the really heavy work.
Key takeaways
Applications run quickly and particularly efficiently, while at the same time there are enormous options for building in interactivity.
The underlying framework simply scales along flawlessly, and tests are also quick to write and implement without fuss.
If you have a fully static website, so one that basically has no interactive elements, then React is simply unnecessary.
Out of the box React is not always equally SEO-friendly, but we know exactly how to solve that.