Introduction React was first introducted to general public in May 2013; roughly three years after the first release of Angular JS (October 2010). Soon, it picked up the momentum and now is the highest stared(~150K) and forked(29.2K) repository on Github. The positive point of React with its contemporary libraries was the backward compatibility in all the released versions. It started as a class based library (extending React.Component ) to pure functional library with React Hooks ; still keeping backward compatibility. Now, new features include asyncronous rendering with Suspense . React's ecosystem is very vast with lots of frameworks available to choose from. We will start with building first simple a.ka. Welcome react application and then build full-stack application with React, Redux, reselect, Next.JS, express JS and Node.JS. So, stay tuned :) Building your first React application You can create React application with project like create-react-app or can create custom

Building a Blog Post application Let's create a blog post application. It will have below features: Option to search blog posts. Option to list blog posts. Option to show blog post. Create a new project with npx create-react-app react-blog-posts --template typescript . Create BlogPosts.tsx component under src/components folder and IBlogPost model under src/models . import React from 'react'; import IBlogPost from '../models/IBlogPost'; interface IBlogPostsProps { posts: Array<IBlogPost> } function BlogPosts(props: IBlogPostsProps) { return ( <div className="blog-container"> <ul className="blog-posts"> { props.posts.map(post => <li key={post.id}>{post.title}</li>) } </ul> </div> ); } export default BlogPosts; interface IBlogPost { id: number title: string content: string author: string postedOn: string tags: string[]