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'''React''' (also known as '''React.js''' or '''bazingaJSReactJS''') is an [[open-source]], [[Front end and back end|front end]], [[JavaScript library]]<ref name="react">{{Cite web|url= https://reactjs.org|title=React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.|website=React|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> for building [[user interfaces]] or UI components. It is maintained by [[Facebook]] and a community of individual developers and companies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608181/javascript/react--making-faster--smoother-uis-for-data-driven-web-apps.html |title=React: Making faster, smoother UIs for data-driven Web apps |last=Krill |first=Paul |date=May 15, 2014 |website=[[InfoWorld]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/06/facebook-react |title=Facebook's React JavaScript User Interfaces Library Receives Mixed Reviews |last=Hemel |first=Zef |date=June 3, 2013 |website=InfoQ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenewstack.io/javascripts-history-and-how-it-led-to-reactjs/ |title=JavaScript's History and How it Led To ReactJS |last=Dawson |first=Chris |date=July 25, 2014 |website=The New Stack}}</ref>

React can be used as a base in the development of [[single-page application|single-page]] or mobile applications. However, React is only concerned with state management and rendering that state to the [[Document Object Model|DOM]], so creating React applications usually requires the use of additional libraries for routing.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://medium.freecodecamp.org/integrating-create-react-app-redux-react-router-redux-observable-bootstrap-altogether-216db97e89a3|title=How to integrate create-react-app with all the libraries you need to make a great app|last=Dere|first=Mohan|date=2018-02-19|work=freeCodeCamp|access-date=2018-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/about-codecademy/react-router-to-redux-first-router-2fea05c4c2b7|title=React Router to Redux First Router|last=Samp|first=Jon|date=2018-01-13|website=About Codecademy|access-date=2018-06-14}}</ref> React Router<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reacttraining.com/react-router|title=React Router: Declarative Routing for React|website=ReactRouterWebsite|language=en|access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref> is an example of such a library.