React: Facebook’s Functional Turn on Writing JavaScript
Pete C. Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, Terry Coatta · Queue · 2016
One of the long-standing ironies of user-friendly JavaScript front ends is that building them typically involved trudging through the DOM (Document Object Model), hardly known for its friendliness to developers. But now developers have a way to avoid directly interacting with the DOM, thanks to Facebook’s decision to open-source its React library for the construction of user interface components.