Build a Sports Trivia Web App from Scratch part 2: An Introduction to React JS

Frontend Development have changed a lot in the past 3 years. Even thou I don’t want to get into the framework wars and comparison of which is the best, I have tried my hands on Vue and Angular and they are both unique in their own ways and been used by top organisations. I started my journey into React about a year ago after working with Vue JS and it amazing how quickly you can put a UI together with Vue JS. In time I started to realised my lack of depth of the JavaScript language itself. I step back to learn JavaScript in more detail then I discovered React.

React A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

My pitch for React for the purpose of this tutorial and for beginners reading this is, it a library that allow you become a better JavaScript programmer. You will be writing mostly Javascript so it easy to apply what you learn to your React Application and grow quickly with the use of the language.

Since this is the build up to my previous blog (Single page Web Sports Trivia App with JavaScript, HTML & CSS — part one) try and check it out where we created the Web UI using pure JavaScript and CSS. It demonstrate how we can pragmatically create web element with JavaScript. I also add links to resources that can help you get started with JavaScript and…