Hi, I'm Nicholas Johnson!

software engineer / trainer / AI enthusiast

React

I've been using react since 2017, first for variaous client projects, and then teaching to various organisations including BBC News.

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It allows the front end to React to changes in state. It guarantees that the interface will always be correct as the state changes. It does this by re=rendering the entire app for every state change. This is possible thanks to the Virtual DOM (tm) which is a code-only representation of the DOM. Changes to the virtual DOM can be batched together, meaning that the actual DOM can be redrawn only when needed.

The React Course

The React course was originally buiilt for BBC News some time ago. It is rather short and could do with an update. I hope one day soon to have time to improve it.