Exploring the architectural challenges of React applications

In this section, we will focus on React and see what things are necessary to consider when building React applications and the main challenges most React developers face when building their applications.

What are the challenges when building a React application?

React is a great tool for building user interfaces. However, there are some challenging things we should think about when building an application. It is very flexible, which is both a good and a bad thing. It is good in the sense that we can define the architecture of different parts of the application without the library getting in our way.

By being so flexible, React has gathered a large community of developers worldwide, building different open-source solutions. There is a complete solution for literally any problem we might encounter during development. This makes the React ecosystem very rich.

However, that flexibility and ecosystem richness come...