Reasons to Choose React for Frontend Development

In the past years, there have been several front end frameworks that support frontend development. These frameworks enable developers to create innovative, simple and lucid as well as creative front-end UI applications that can be integrated into core applications helping to develop software. Front end frameworks enable developers to create and build the graphical user interfaces that we nowadays see in many different applications. One specific framework has recently been gaining popularity and has emerged as the most popular and preferred framework for developing user interfaces. This is React. React has been around since 2013 and it is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, a typical trend has been observed where react surpasses many other popular UI frameworks by a huge margin, this trend is shown in google trends insights that suggest that people are searching for the term react in web pages.

In this article, we will discuss why you should choose to React for your front end development.

Easy to learn

React is easy to learn and is completely beginner friendly. This means that even fresher or novice developers having little to no experience will also find it very easy to learn and master React faster and use it in their coding projects. React has been developed from the ground up to be a beginner friendly language and the concepts are clearly explained with examples in the documentation. It does not take much time for beginner programmers to master react. Therefore programmers prefer to react because it is intuitive and very easy to understand and learn. This is the major reason why react is much preferred in the world of applications GUI development.

Rich user Interfaces

When you learn to use react you will see that it enables you to create clean and rich looking Graphical user interfaces. It is especially important in software development to arouse the user by providing simplistic yet rich and creative user interfaces. It is because of this user interface that the user will interact with the applications and hence it needs to be in a certain manner for the user to get attracted to the clean looking GUI in the world of software development. Hence React enables developers and designers to create rich and clean looking GUI that has no clutter and the navigation as well as other elements of GUI such as buttons and text boxes are all clear and well looking.

Faster development time

Applications developed using React have faster development time and cost significantly less to develop. This is because all the features that need to be developed using react are already coded in the framework using functions and modules. All the developers need to do is to use those functions declared in the modules and directly call them to perform the intended operation. Thus it is cost effective and time effective to develop applications using react as it takes significantly less development time to build any kind of application using React.

React supports reusable components and development tools that significantly speeds up the development process for any application. So it is easy to say that React is known to dramatically decrease the time taken to develop a React application.

Trusted by many companies

There are many companies that have used and implemented React in their applications. React is used by many great companies including Facebook, NetFlix, CodeAcademy, Khan Academy, Wallmart, IMDb, Tesla Motors and many others. Why are many companies using this tool for application development? The answer is that it is a great tool and can help the job to be done.

Supported by Facebook

React was invented by a Facebook engineer to implement some app features into their platform. And they also released this tool to the general public in 2013. It took no time for this tool to rise in popularity and has reached the height to where React is now. It is indeed a great tool that helps to do application development with ease and flexibility.

Timely Updates and fixes

All the bug fixes and improvements as well as timely updates are managed by facebook team for react. And hence you are insured that your react application can take advantage of these timely updates that are regularly released to the general public by facebook’s react team.

Strong Community support

React enjoys a strong community of aspiring and experienced developers who are eager to help people out in implementing react in their applications. Any issues are resolved through the forums that have an active community eager to help others and get their queries and problems solved.

Conclusion: So these are the reasons why you should prefer react for the development of your application or any kind of front end GUI work.

Technical Writer at Nimap Infotech (Narsimha Pai). Our article will help you if you are a App developer, web developer or Software developer.