ReactJS is one of the newest technology and on this most of the websites are built. It’s among the most popular web technology out there in the market and there’s a reason for that.

ReactJS a framework or library?

Most of the people are confused with ReactJS being a framework or library. Although majority of the population believes that ReactJS is a proper full-fledged framework where as the truth is beyond this. ReactJS is not a framework rather a mere Javascript library, but this library is capable of giving almost every single functionality which is required for a good framework. That is why it is commonly referred as framework.

ReactJS v/s Angular

There are many other JavaScript libraries/frameworks like React. The most popular ones are AngularJS and VueJS. Why not use them? Well, the use of each varies according to the requirements of the projects. What you choose, hardly matters and it's more like a personal choice than a universal one.But still, React has got an upper edge over the two. Let's compare React with equally popular AngularJS:

• AngularJS is more bloated than React. This is because AngularJS is a full-fledged framework while React is a library. This means Angular includes has a larger code base and more complex mechanism than React.
• Angular being more bloated makes it slower than React.
• Angular code is large and bulky. If it takes you 50 lines of code to do something in React, it would take you 70-90 lines of code to do the same thing in Angular. This makes Angular code files larger and space-occupying. In short, React is more size-efficient than Angular.

But using a framework/library is a very subjective point in practice. Sometimes Angular serves better than React. For example, Firebase authentication implementation on Angular is much more seemless and easier than React.

It varies from organization to organization and what framework/library they use.

Instagram, Meta, Bloomberg, Uber, Skype, and Discord are some of the tech giants that use React for developing their web apps. On the other hand, Microsoft, Google, and Samsung are some of the companies that rely on Angular. While many companies use both like Apple. Not to mention that our insti-app website is written in Angular but the Resobin website frontend is written in React.

So yes, it's a very subjective choice.

We hope its convincing enough to use React.

Resources:

• The best possible resource for learning something is the official documentation of that organisation only, so we can start learning ReactJS by going through the docs & probably that’d be your most used resource (also stackoverflow) in the learning phase.

Here is an embedded link of <https://reactjs.org/>

https://reactjs.org/