This book is designed to help you understand the basics of React. Since we only built a simple application in this chapter, we didn't get to explore many of React's cool features. In this chapter, you started off with a simple counter, then built a ToDo list in the React crash course, and finally, built a simple blog application using the create-react-app tool and some libraries, such as react-router and reactstrap.
Being a simple view layer of the app, React does need a few libraries used together to make it work like a full fledged framework. React isn't the only JavaScript framework out there but React definitely is a one of a kind library that is revolutionizing modern UI development.
Everything is really great about React and the blog application we just built, except that each of the pages in the blog takes an annoying 3 seconds to load. Well, we...
