Today i learned introduction of React.

🔹 What is React?

React is a JavaScript library developed by Facebook for building user interfaces (UIs), especially for single-page applications.

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🔹 Key Features of React

1. Component-Based – Your UI is built using reusable components.
2. Declarative – You describe what you want the UI to look like.
3. Virtual DOM – React uses a virtual DOM to improve performance.
4. JSX – A syntax extension that lets you write HTML inside JavaScript.

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🔹 Basic Example

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';

function App() {
  return <h1>Hello, React!</h1>;
}

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
root.render(<App />);

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🔹 How to Start?

1. Using Create React App (CRA):

   npx create-react-app my-app
   cd my-app
   npm start

1. Or use online editors like:

• CodeSandbox
• StackBlitz

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🔹 Core Concepts to Learn Next

• Components (Function vs Class)
• Props & State
• Event Handling
• Conditional Rendering
• Lists and Keys
• useEffect and useState (React Hooks)

The difference between React DOM and the regular DOM (Document Object Model) boils down to how they manage and update the web page.

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Real DOM Vs JS DOM

🧱 DOM (Regular/Browser DOM)

The DOM is a tree-like structure created by the browser to represent the structure of an HTML document.

• Native to the browser (no libraries involved)
• Manipulated with JavaScript directly using methods like:

  document.getElementById("myDiv").innerText = "Hello";

• Updates are immediate and can be expensive if frequent, especially for large UIs.
• Developers must manually handle updates, UI state, and performance optimizations.

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⚛️ React DOM (Virtual DOM + React's way of updating the DOM)

React DOM refers to React’s abstraction over the browser DOM, using a Virtual DOM behind the scenes.

• Uses a Virtual DOM: a lightweight in-memory copy of the real DOM.
• React renders UI components and builds a virtual DOM tree.
• When something changes (e.g., state or props), React:

1. Updates the virtual DOM.
2. Diffs it against the previous version (using a process called reconciliation).
3. Efficiently updates only the necessary parts of the real DOM.
   • Example:

  <div>{this.state.text}</div>

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🔍 Key Differences

Feature	DOM	React DOM
Origin	Native to browser	React library
Updates	Direct and immediate	Uses diffing & batch updates
Performance	Slower for large UIs	Faster and optimized
Abstraction	None	Virtual DOM
Ease of use	Manual state/logic management	Declarative and component-based

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Single Vs Multi Page Application.

Here's a clear comparison between Single Page Applications (SPA) and Multi Page Applications (MPA) — two different architectural approaches in web development:

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🧩 1. What is a Single Page Application (SPA)?

A SPA loads a single HTML page and dynamically updates the content without reloading the whole page.

🔧 How it works:

• Loads the core HTML, CSS, and JavaScript once.
• Uses JavaScript (usually a framework like React, Angular, or Vue) to render and update content.
• Navigating between "pages" just updates the DOM via JavaScript (no full page reload).

✅ Pros:

• Fast after initial load (no page reloads).
• Smooth user experience (like a native app).
• API-driven (easy to decouple frontend/backend).
• Great for mobile and dynamic content.

❌ Cons:

• Slower initial load (needs to load everything upfront).
• Can have SEO challenges (though this is solvable with SSR/Next.js).
• More complex routing and state management.

💡 Example:

• Gmail
• Facebook
• Trello
• Twitter (modern version)

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🧱 2. What is a Multi Page Application (MPA)?

An MPA consists of multiple separate HTML pages, and every time a user navigates, the browser loads a new page from the server.

🔧 How it works:

• Each page is a full HTML document.
• Traditional web apps with server-side rendering.
• Backend handles routing and returns new pages.

✅ Pros:

• SEO-friendly by default.
• Easier to manage large-scale apps with complex structure.
• Less reliance on JavaScript (can work well even with JS disabled).

❌ Cons:

• Slower navigation (full page reloads on every request).
• Can feel less seamless (especially compared to SPAs).
• Requires more server resources.

💡 Example:

• Amazon
• Wikipedia
• Traditional eCommerce sites
• Most server-rendered CMS platforms

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🔍 SPA vs MPA Summary

Feature	SPA	MPA
Page Reloads	No (JavaScript handles updates)	Yes (each page is a full reload)
Speed (after load)	Fast (dynamic updates)	Slower (reloads whole pages)
SEO	Needs extra setup (e.g. SSR)	SEO-friendly by default
Complexity	More frontend logic	More backend logic
Initial Load Time	Typically slower	Typically faster
User Experience	Smoother, app-like	More traditional

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⚙️ Choosing Between Them

Use SPA if:

• You need a highly interactive UI (e.g., dashboards, social media).
• You're building a mobile-like experience.
• SEO is not your top priority, or you're using Server-Side Rendering (SSR).

Use MPA if:

• You need strong SEO support out of the box.
• The app has many unrelated pages (e.g., product listings, blogs).
• You want a simpler structure with server-side rendering.

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