React

Painless creation of interactive UIs

React is an open source JavaScript library created by Facebook to help build reusable, component-based web UIs, where changes made to data create only minimal updates, resulting in better performance as compared to other MVVM frameworks like Angular. In fact, rendering with React can be up to 10 times faster than with Angular - and when speed is important this is a crucial consideration. Want even faster rendering? Vue.js might be the answer.

Facebook were compelled to create React, as they saw a need for alternatives to traditional JavaScript frameworks. When you’re thinking about React development companies, Facebook were the ones who started it all. React was developed to solve business problems, rather than technical ones - which is why we love using it for our clients’ solutions. Facebook has also recently changed React’s licensing to an MIT license, meaning commercial code written with React is now completely free and easy to use for business.

React is what you see when you’re using products from top US companies like Asana, that use React experts to build web UIs that benefit from immutable data representation and pure functions for simplifying their software (one of the most interesting React.js case studies); Nordstrom, where React components are used rather than traditional templates, to best serve their website model; Instagram, Coursera, and Dropbox, among other big names - and besides Facebook itself, of course.

How using React can help your project

Fast load times and great performance

- even on mobile

Small footprint

- just 133kB as is (though Vue is 74.2kB less!)

Simple or complex UI

- can be used for both

Can use inbuilt server-side rendering, instead of relying on the client - built with SEO in mind (which counts rendering speed which we mentioned earlier when compiling site rankings)
Highly scalable with clear component organization for an ever growing and complex web app
Great for displaying data that is constantly changing
Easy to do gradual migration from another codebase
Has a lot of 3rd party libraries available for typical things such as bootstrap integration, drag & drops, form validations, etc.
Is flexible, not forcing you to use each particular library for state management, routing, etc. as these are all opt-in
As it is a UI layer only, it can be easily added to existing codebases.

For us, web application development with React.js is great because it makes testing easy, and it is easy to read and maintain - it is highly efficient. For you, this means that development can progress smoothly and at a fast pace, and the project can easily grow over time, as necessary.

We can also use React Native, a framework that helps us to build native apps for iOS and Android with React and JavaScript - and without Objective-C, or Java. React Native gives us the edge because it’s faster than Cordova and other web-based native app building frameworks, delivering near-native performance with 60fps animations. React Native is perfect for projects that are already using React because the business logic (i.e. for application’s state) can be mostly re-used. Big names like UberEats and Walmart are currently using React Native for its excellent code reusability and fast performance.

iRonin are a team of highly experienced React.js software developers and DevOps experts with the skills to build you a better performing, more scalable, and highly reusable (due to the use of components) web app. As a React web development company we use React, as well as a wide range of other technologies, depending on the best pick for your business case. Please make sure to get in contact with us for all your web development company needs.

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