React

The library for web and native user interfaces

5.0•160 reviews•

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The library for web and native user interfaces

5.0•160 reviews•

2.6K followers

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A free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on components.

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React Debugger — Debug React directly inside DevTools

React Debugger is a Chrome DevTools extension built for deep React debugging.

It gives you performance profiling, memory monitoring, anti pattern detection, Side Effects & CLS insights, plus Redux tooling all in one panel.

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npx @nhonh/react-debugger

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5.0

Based on 160 reviews

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Makers largely celebrate React’s stability, speed, and massive ecosystem. The makers of

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highlight predictable composition, portable components, and seamless integration—underscoring React’s fit for scalable UIs and SDKs. Broader reviewers praise its component model, hooks, and strong community, noting fast onboarding and maintainability. Some mention a learning curve and occasional complexity, but say the payoff is worth it. Many compare favorably to Angular/Vue, citing flexibility and tooling. Overall: a dependable, future-proof choice for interactive web and native interfaces.

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component-based architecture (20)

dynamic user interfaces (11)

fast performance (9)

flexibility (9)

large ecosystem (8)

reusable components (8)

scalability (7)

strong community support (4)

virtual DOM (4)

easy learning curve (3)

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React

to build Rankfender instead of Tailwind CSS

•4 reviews

At Rankfender, we actually use both—they complement each other rather than compete. Here's why: Why React? Component reusability. We built a dashboard with complex data tables, real-time AI answer updates, and charting libraries. React's component model keeps this maintainable as we scale. Ecosystem. React Query for data fetching, Recharts for visualizations, React Router for navigation—the ecosystem is unmatched. Developer experience. Fast refresh, hooks, and a massive community mean we ship faster. Why Tailwind CSS? Speed. No jumping between files to write CSS. We style components inline and move on. Consistency. Utility classes enforce design tokens—spacing, colors, typography—across the entire app. Bundle size. PurgeCSS removes unused styles automatically. Our CSS stays lean even as the UI grows. The combo: React handles the heavy lifting (state, logic, API calls). Tailwind makes it look good—fast. For Rankfender, that meant shipping a polished dashboard in weeks, not months.

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React

to build UniDeck

•6 reviews

React powers UniDeck’s intuitive interface, enabling a seamless and dynamic user experience for building dashboards without any coding. Its component-based architecture allowed us to rapidly prototype and refine features, ensuring both performance and scalability. While we chose React for its robust ecosystem and active community, alternatives like Vue.js or Svelte could have been considered for their simplicity and smaller bundle sizes but they didn't benefit from the same ecosystem and community size like React.

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scalability (7)component-based architecture (20)strong community support (4)large ecosystem (8)dynamic user interfaces (11)

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React

to build TableSprint

•7 reviews

We have worked on angular extensively in our last startup which was also very good, but for Tablesprint we went for react due to easy learning curve for new team members and for all it's components. Specific components like tanstack react-table, react-grid and also elstar theme from Themeforest which has provided lot of ready uis with easy to implement in our project really reduced time to develop for us and also experiment with new UIs.