Why ReactJS in 2021?

Himanshu Rawat
2 min readMay 4, 2021

You cannot react “haha” in react js , Just kidding! In the front-end development field react is one of the most demanding and hot tech requirement which is highly getting adapted by startups

As you can build a spa (single page application) in React you can easily switch to mobile app development later with ease.

Community supports

React have a large community on Github,Reddit,Twitter and many other social media platform, errors and bugs can be easily solved here as someone has already solved it for you

As it backed by facebook the community support from Facebook developers solves almost every problem you faced while developing

Pre-built libraries and packages

There are an infinite number of packages available for specific functionality that needs to instill in your project

From geo-location to temperature tracking everything you just need to install dependencies and start using them as components

Easy to learn

React is easy to learn as JSX is almost like HTML CSS with some functional code.

Basic and fundamentals of reactjs are used for easy and complex projects. The learning curve of react js is fast as compared to other frontend libraries

Market needs and Job opportunities

In 2020, the position of React JS Developer has seen a 184% increase in the total number of job vacancies

In recent years reactjs experiences a high demand due to its capabilities of reusing components and modular structure. React js is highly flexible and efficient for large enterprise applications as well.

Mobile App development

React js is compatible in developing both web applications and mobile applications. If you learn to code for the web eventually with some extra dependencies installed configured with Android or IOS you will start developing mobile apps too.

Freelance Career

You can make a good freelancing career in react js as most of the companies hire freelancers on a project basis and pay scale is very high as compared to another tech stack later you can turn your freelance network easily to the agency (I did the same)

Bonus tips on how to start learning React js

  1. Learn basics of Arrow functions and ES6 javascript
  2. Join the community of react js developers
  3. Follow people who share learnings of React daily on social media, You can follow me on Instagram
  4. Get yourself comfortable with Git
  5. Read more blogs than watching videos for tutorials for fast learning

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