Modern Full-Stack Development

CHAPTER 3
Client-Side Adventures: 
React
In the previous two chapters, we talked about Node and its good friend NPM, two of the 
most popular tools for building server-side applications. Now, let’s look at the client side 
of the fence.
The big joke – which is less a joke and more an observation really – is that there 
seems to be a new framework/library/toolkit for building web-based client applications 
every day. That is both the benefit and the curse of having such a vibrant development 
community! But, over the last couple of years, a few popular options have floated to the 
top of the pile and React is one of them. That’s what we’re going to look at in this chapter 
and the next.