Part 2: Meet React

In the most general sense, React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces

across a variety of platforms. In this chapter, we’ll examine where React fits

in the broader world of web engineering and what makes React’s mental model

powerful. We’ll also get a high-level view of React components, the virtual DOM,

and some of React’s concepts and paradigms.

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