Let’s know more about React — benefits, demand, salary & other topics

What is React?

React is a Javascript library created to make frontend development easier. It helps us in building User Interfaces. It is used for making single page applications.

React is a component based library, we can reuse the react components anywhere in the project.

React is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies.

Why to choose React?

As we discussed React is created to make the frontend development easier, and it does its job perfectly. Let’s discuss some of top benefits of choosing React.

React JS is easy to learn and easy to use. There are lots of tutorials and resources to learn React. The official documentation of React is also very helpful.

React have a component-based architecture. Each component have control on its own rendering and can be reused wherever you want in the project. These reusable components makes the development faster and easier to maintain.

In React we use JSX. It is really just a mix of HTML and JavaScript. JSX lets you add HTML to your JavaScript. JSX produces React “elements” and has a number of side benefits, including helping prevent injection attacks.

These are top features of React. There many more features of React JS which makes one of the first choice for frontend development.

Some Stats about React

In 2019, React.js was the most loved web framework by developers worldwide — coming in at a very close 2nd position in 2020 according to the most recent survey done by StackOverflow. Until now, There are 242,230 React JS questions and 134,302 npm packages, meaning that the future of React is brighter than the sun.

Check out thinslices for more stats about React JS.

React is one of the most demanding frameworks in the market. According to stackoverflow survey 2020, jQuery is the most popular web framework but is losing ground to React JS which is second most popular web framework.

According to the survey, React JS is the most wanted web framework and is loved by 68.9% participants. It is the second most loved web framework.

Who uses React JS?

There are about 1,105,652 Websites using React all around the globe according to SimilarTech.

An estimated number of 8787 industry leaders currently use React.js. Some of these companies are :

• Airbnb
• Uber
• Netflix
• Facebook
• Instagram
• WhatsApp
• BBC
• Twitter
• Reddit.

You know its Awesome when these industry giants are using it.

Community for React JS

React has a community of millions of developers.

There are many online forums which are a great place for discussion about best practices and application architecture as well as the future of React. If you have an answerable code-level question, Stack Overflow is usually a better fit.

Here is a small list of some forums/communities :

• DEV’s React community
• Hashnode’s React community
• Reactiflux online chat
• Reddit’s React community
• Spectrum’s React community

React JS developer salary range in India

The average salary of a React JS developer in India is ₹7,33,000.

• An entry-level React JS developer can get paid around INR 4,00,000 per annum with less than one year of experience.
• React JS developers with experience of about 1 to 4 years can earn around INR 5,40,000.
• A mid-level web developer with 5 to 6 years of experience gets INR 13,00,000 a year in India.
• As your experience and skills grow, your earnings rise dramatically. As a senior-level React JS developer earns around more than INR 17,00,000 per year in India..!!

Source : upGrad blog by Rohan Vats

Feeling Motivated?? Hell Yeaahhhhhhhh..!!!!!!!

App development with React Native

Yesss, you can develop app too with React..!! React Native allows us to create hybrid apps with Javascript.

React Native combines the best parts of native development with React, a best-in-class JavaScript library for building user interfaces. You can use React Native today in your existing Android and iOS projects or you can create a whole new app from scratch.

React Native is being used in thousands of apps, but it’s likely you’ve already used it in one of these apps:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Shopify
• Skype
• Uber Eats
• Flipkart
• Discord

And many more…

React Native is also backed & maintained by Facebook. It was released by Facebook in 2015, and have gained huge popularity till now. It is a great choice for making hybrid apps.

Thanks for Reading..!!

I hope this blog will help you. You can use or learn more about React on their official site.

Here is a good blog to get start learning React : Getting Started With React.js — Part 1 by Siddhant Verma