There is no doubt that user experience is one of the most important aspects of web application development. Nailing the UI and UX parts of an app allows Ginbits to offer exceptional user experiences to everyone using our applications to make their lives easier and more efficient. In the dense list of technologies we have opted for, React -also known as React.js or ReactJS- is among the most important ones.

This popular JavaScript framework gives our front-end developers the ability to create high-end user interfaces that provide the best possible UX. React and its features allow us to develop user-friendly applications that can become as large in size as necessary, without limits. Thanks to React’s agility and ever-growing database of tools, Ginbits can forge apps that keep growing in size, without worrying about the possible limitations that a framework might have.

Making JavaScript coding much easier than it already is, ReactJS offers excellent cross-platform support, handles dependencies greatly, makes template designing easy, and provides the front-end developers of Ginbits with amazing dev tools. UI-focused designs and easy adaptation make React a great pick to make web application development efficient and get the desired results.

Moreover, React Native gives us the option of building applications that are web apps and mobile apps, simultaneously. This not only saves us time, but it also enables us to offer users variety and a great user experience through whichever device they prefer to use. This is possible thanks to reusable components, a feature that allows ReactJS developers to reuse already existing components in new apps, therefore saving both us and our users valuable time.

Last yet equally important, we want to highlight the importance of being able to build large web and mobile applications that can change data without reloading a page. Ginbits focuses on forging apps that serve industries with Big Data, such as the iGaming industry, and therefore performance and minimum loading time are of the utmost importance.

What is React

Deployed on Facebook and specifically, its newsfeed in 2011 and one year later on Instagram.com, React (also known as React.js and ReactJS) is an open-source JavaScript library. React allows developers to build large web applications that will be able to change data without reloading the page.

In its nature, React.js is fast, scalable, and simple. It can be used in combination with other JavaScript libraries or frameworks, and only works on the user interfaces of an app. This corresponds to the view in the MVC template.

What is JSX

Instead of using the regular JavaScript for templating, React.js uses JSX. JSX is a syntax extension to JavaScript and is recommended for use in conjunction with ReactJS to describe what the UI should look like. JSX produces React elements and allows HTML quoting, using said HTML tag syntax to render subcomponents. HTML syntax is processed into JavaScript calls of the React framework. Of course, there is the option of writing in pure JavaScript.

Why React

The question “Why?” is the first one to arise at Ginbits when we opt for a specific technology. With efficiency and performance always in mind, we go for technologies that provide us with the most efficient possible outcome. React answers the question “why?” in many different ways.

Thanks to React’s agility and flexibility, we are able to create large applications that can keep growing in size, without having to worry about the limitations a framework might impose. React is essentially a library that contains tools (new ones are being added constantly) from which our front-end developers can pick and use them to build our large apps.

Since Ginbits forges applications for industries that require large amounts of data and therefore need large apps, ReactJS is the perfect solution. Its flexibility allows us to keep building, exemplifying the power of our applications, without having to worry that a barrier will appear at some point in the future, limiting the growth of the app.

Ginbits requires this kind of flexibility and freedom simply because the apps we create do not have a definitive size. They are ever-growing since they are solutions for industries that are growing alongside our applications, and constantly require more and more data and new features to become more efficient. We need something that does not tie us to a specific app size and React.js is the perfect answer to that.

ReactJS features and attributes

Several known React features and attributes are among the most important pros that React has to offer.

Intuitive

React allows Ginbits devs to interact with the layout of any user interface. In addition, it enables fast and quality-assured app development, which in turn saves time for both us and users.

Declarative

By enabling significant data changes, React.js allows the automatic alteration in selected parts of user interfaces. Thanks to this progressive approach, devs do not need to perform extra functions to update the user interface of our applications.

Reusable Components

Ginbits developers have reusable components in their hands, thanks to ReactJS. These components can be reused to build a new application, thus saving time and making app development efficient. React enables Ginbits front-end developers to use previously built components and add them to new applications, provided they apply to it as well. Moreover, thanks to React Native, ReactJS provides our devs with the option of building one app, which is a web application and a mobile application at the same time.

Simple

React allows Ginbits to build and support professional web and mobile applications thanks to its simplicity. Its component-based approach and well-defined lifecycle, as well as the use of JavaScript, make React a great option for building user interfaces.

Data Binding

Flux, an application architecture, controls the flow of data to components through one control point called the dispatcher, in React. This JavaScript library uses one-way data binding, allowing Ginbits devs to debug self-contained components of large React applications.

Testability

React gives us the ability to treat React views as functions of the state, meaning we are able to manipulate with the state we pass to the React view and look at the output as well as the triggered actions, events, functions, and more. The testability of React allows us to constantly test our apps seamlessly.

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