Guillaume Ducuing
Web Developer

One of the major innovations of React is the use of the Virtual DOM (Document Object Model). Instead of directly manipulating the DOM, React creates a virtual representation of the DOM in memory and updates it efficiently. This enhances performance by minimizing direct DOM manipulations, which can be costly operations.

Next.js is a web development framework based on React that seamlessly combines the best features of React with advanced server-side rendering and routing capabilities. It's designed to simplify the creation of fast, scalable, and search engine optimized web applications. It's being used right here!

Prismic stands out as a headless CMS, which means it focuses on content management without imposing restrictions on how that content is presented. This provides developers with great flexibility to design custom user interfaces.

React has evolved beyond web development to include mobile app development through React Native. Developers can use React and JavaScript to create mobile applications, thereby sharing a significant portion of code between web and mobile apps.

Web frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js simplify the development process by providing predefined structures and features. They save time and enhance development efficiency.

One of the main features of Next.js is prerendering, which generates static HTML pages at build time. This improves loading speed by providing pre-rendered pages instead of generating content on the client side.

Prismic uses a flexible content modeling approach based on "slices." Slices are reusable pieces of content that can be assembled to create complex pages. This approach allows users to define content models tailored to their specific needs.

Next.js extends the capabilities of React by adding server-side rendering. This means that the initial rendering can be done on the server side, improving the overall performance of the application and facilitating search engine optimization (SEO) optimization.

useState is a Hook that allows functional components to declare local states, while useEffect is used to perform effect-related operations, such as API calls or DOM manipulations, in a functional component.

Hooks were introduced in React 16.8 to enable developers to use state and other React features in functional components. They provide an alternative to class components for managing state and effects in React components.

Between November 2022 and November 2023, React is widely favored among JavaScript libraries, with 1,009,938,901 downloads, compared to 351,867,000 for Vue and 25,629,507 for Angular. Next.js totals 218,426,845 downloads, compared to 26,454,587 for Nuxt.js during the same period.