When seeing https://dev.to/itsjzt/why-there-is-so-much-hype-around-doing-things-in-javascript-8ne I as a web developer immediately got another question in mind:
Why is there so much hype around React.js?
Yes, typically people argue with Facebook as a big backer and the nowadays tremendous ecosystem. But a big part of this ecosystem for example tries to solve problems that only exist because of React. The way it works seems to be completely contrary to existing web technologies, so that more and more convenience libraries are written to make things work in React, that already would work without it. React is also neither the fastest nor the most convenient way to do componented web applications. It's speedy but also not the fastest in rendering.
So what's it that draws people to it?
Because it does things differently and people love new things
If you don't get why guys are using React, see this example:
<p> {likes} People liked your pic</p>
So, you can see
likes
is the number of likes you got on your pic but and best part it's dynamic if one more person will like it, it will be updated you don't need to update it (like in Jquery).It will update automatically if you change its state.If you are saying you can also update it manually then in real world apps there are tons of states and you have to update each of them manually.
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