{"id":4369,"date":"2018-08-18T19:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2018-08-18T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T19:38:33","slug":"starting-with-npm-and-react-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Starting with npm and React JS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been going along to\u00a0 Wellington JS<\/a> meetups.\u00a0 The last one was Konstantin Raev “Using Open Source responsibly: why Yarn was created<\/a>“. His talk was focused on React Native and Yarn as a download\u00a0 of packages versus npm. He gave some interesting statistics of how popular npm was compared to other package managers and issues with open source. “npm is the package manager for JavaScript and the world\u2019s largest software registry<\/em>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had come across npm<\/strong> before but didn’t know much about it apart from it being a download process.I have done a little bit of linux where you upload packages but was a bit unsure where they came from. I am used to windows download zip, msi or exe and installing in windows. I only became a bit more confident with downloading packages with python and the pip install process (although I have had a reasonable amount of packages get a bit miffy and not load). So I thought I’d give the npm process a go. I also had heard of React<\/strong> but didn’t know too much about that either. So I thought I’d try setting it up to see what it is and how it works.<\/p>\n

So, as far as I can tell, there is ReactJS and ReactNative. React Native is more focused on Mobile and React JS is more general. Also there are packages such as Angular & Vue that are in the same space as well. Apparently Angular is a whole Framework whereas React JS is a view library, so smaller. Also React JS only focuses on the user interface.<\/p>\n

So, on trying to understand what ReactJS is I\u00a0 found this video and started to follow it:<\/p>\n