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Pros of React
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  • 837
    Components
  • 673
    Virtual dom
  • 579
    Performance
  • 509
    Simplicity
  • 442
    Composable
  • 186
    Data flow
  • 166
    Declarative
  • 128
    Isn't an mvc framework
  • 120
    Reactive updates
  • 115
    Explicit app state
  • 50
    JSX
  • 29
    Learn once, write everywhere
  • 22
    Easy to Use
  • 22
    Uni-directional data flow
  • 17
    Works great with Flux Architecture
  • 11
    Great perfomance
  • 10
    Javascript
  • 9
    Built by Facebook
  • 8
    TypeScript support
  • 6
    Speed
  • 6
    Server Side Rendering
  • 6
    Scalable
  • 5
    Easy to start
  • 5
    Feels like the 90s
  • 5
    Awesome
  • 5
    Props
  • 5
    Cross-platform
  • 5
    Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
  • 5
    Easy as Lego
  • 5
    Functional
  • 5
    Excellent Documentation
  • 5
    Hooks
  • 4
    Scales super well
  • 4
    Allows creating single page applications
  • 4
    Sdfsdfsdf
  • 4
    Start simple
  • 4
    Strong Community
  • 4
    Super easy
  • 4
    Server side views
  • 4
    Fancy third party tools
  • 3
    Rich ecosystem
  • 3
    Has arrow functions
  • 3
    Very gentle learning curve
  • 3
    Beautiful and Neat Component Management
  • 3
    Just the View of MVC
  • 3
    Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
  • 3
    Fast evolving
  • 3
    SSR
  • 3
    Great migration pathway for older systems
  • 3
    Simple
  • 3
    Has functional components
  • 3
    Every decision architecture wise makes sense
  • 2
    Sharable
  • 2
    Permissively-licensed
  • 2
    HTML-like
  • 2
    Image upload
  • 2
    Recharts
  • 2
    Fragments
  • 2
    Split your UI into components with one true state
  • 1
    React hooks
  • 1
    Datatables
  • 0
    Easy setup

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Cons of React
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  • 41
    Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
  • 30
    No predefined way to structure your app
  • 29
    Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
  • 13
    JSX
  • 10
    Not enterprise friendly
  • 6
    One-way binding only
  • 3
    State consistency with backend neglected
  • 3
    Bad Documentation
  • 2
    Error boundary is needed
  • 2
    Paradigms change too fast
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    What is React?

    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

    What is Showdown?

    Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML

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    What are some alternatives to React and Showdown?
    Angular
    It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
    Vue.js
    It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
    Ember.js
    A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.
    NativeScript
    NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.
    jQuery
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