Author: saqibkhan

Components are the building blocks of any React application, and a single app usually consists of multiple components. A component is essentially a piece of the user interface. It splits the user interface into independent, reusable parts that can be processed separately.

There are two types of components in React:

• Functional Components: These types of components have no state of their own and only contain render methods, and therefore are also called stateless components. They may derive data from other components as props (properties).

function Greeting(props) {  return <h1>Welcome to {props.name}</h1>;}

• Class Components: These types of components can hold and manage their own state and have a separate render method to return JSX on the screen. They are also called Stateful components as they can have a state.

class Greeting extends React.Component {  render() {    return <h1>Welcome to {this.props.name}</h1>;  }}

	Angular	React
Author	Google	Facebook
Architecture	Complete MVC	View layer of MVC
DOM	Real DOM	Virtual DOM
Data-Binding	Bi-directional	Uni-directional
Rendering	Client-Side	Server-Side
Performance	Comparatively slow	Faster due to Virtual DOM

	React	React Native
Release	2013	2015
Platform	Web	Mobile – Android, iOS
HTML	Yes	No
CSS	Yes	No
Prerequisites	JavaScript, HTML, CSS	React.js

• An arrow function is a short way of writing a function to React.
• It is unnecessary to bind ‘this’ inside the constructor when using an arrow function. This prevents bugs caused by the use of ‘this’ in React callbacks.

There are basically two ways in which we can write comments:

• Single-line comments

• Multi-line comments

React employs forms to enable users to interact with web applications.

• Using forms, users can interact with the application and enter the required information whenever needed. Form contain certain elements, such as text fields, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc
• Forms are used for many different tasks such as user authentication, searching, filtering, indexing, etc

Keys are very important in lists for the following reasons:

• A key is a unique identifier and it is used to identify which items have changed, been updated or deleted from the lists
• It also helps to determine which components need to be re-rendered instead of re-rendering all the components every time. Therefore, it increases performance, as only the updated components are re-rendered

• We create lists in React as we do in regular JavaScript. Lists display data in an ordered format
• The traversal of lists is done using the map() function

• Synthetic events combine the response of different browser’s native events into one API, ensuring that the events are consistent across different browsers.
• The application is consistent regardless of the browser it is running in. Here, preventDefault is a synthetic event.

A React event can be created by doing the following: