Build your first React Website

https://www.coursera.org/projects/build-first-react-website

• What is React?
  1. Open-source JavaScript library,  maintained by Facebook;
  2. Different from React Native, which is designed for App development;
  3. Virtual DOM (Memory RAM) for faster rendering.

• Functional components
  • Stateless sanpshots

• Class-based components:
  • Object-oriented states, more dynamic;
  • Lifecycle hooks;

• JSX stands for JavaScript XML.
  • Question: difference between XML & HTML?
    • XML mainly focuses on transfer of data while HTML is focused on presentation of the data.

• Coding notes:
  • ‘class’ is a reserved keyword in React. Instead writing ‘class’ inside HTML tag, use ‘className‘;
  • use {curly braces} to inject js expression.