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Now, this course

is about React, but it is worth noting

that there are alternatives to React.js.

Now we're going to focus on React here and React is one

of the most popular front-end frameworks

or libraries, however, you want to call it you can learn.

It's a lean and focused component-based UI library.

It really focuses on this component thing,

and it doesn't have a lot of other features built in.

If you need our features like routing which we are,

of course, going to learn about in detail in this course

then you need to install a extra third-party library.

And that will sometimes be the case when working with React,

that you need to install third-party libraries

to add certain pieces of functionality to your application

because React itself really just focuses

on these components, which we're going

to learn about in greater detail later,

what exactly they are and how we create them,

and how it then renders these components,

and your user interface onto the screen.

That's the focus of React and extra functionality

which you might need for your React app,

therefore, sometimes has to be added

with help of some third-party package.

Now, an alternative to React, which has

more built in features would be Angular

another very important,

and very popular front-end framework.

And I got a course on this as well.

Angular is a complete component-based UI framework.

So, it also focuses on components just like React,

but it ships more built in features than React.

It also embraces TypeScript right from the start.

And it can be overkill for smaller projects,

therefore, since it has way more features built in.

But for a large project, on the other hand,

you don't need to rely on the community as much

because there's more built into that framework.

So, that's simply a little consideration you have to make.

The syntax also looks a bit differently

because, whilst it is component focused,

building these components works a bit differently

with Angular than it does with React.

Again, I got a course on that,

if you want to check out Angular as well.

And we also have another very popular framework,

another popular alternative and that would be Vue.js.

Vue.js is kind of like the mixture of Angular and React,

in between those two extremes,

if you want to call it like this.

It's also a complete component-based UI framework.

And it also includes a lot of features,

but a bit less features than Angular, but more than React.

It includes core features like routing, for example,

and therefore with Vue, you also have

to rely less on the community and still you don't have

as much overload possibly as you might have with Angular,

depending on what you build.

I also got a more detailed comparison video

on these three technologies,

in case you're interested in that.

Now, all three are super popular.

React currently is probably the most popular,

but all three are great, I got courses

on all three and therefore checking

those out might be a good idea as well.

But this course, of course, is about React

and therefore let's not lose any time, let's dive right in.