--- title: React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think description: React, a prominent JavaScript library for building user interfaces, enhances front-end development through reusable components and efficient UI management. New... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/react-mindset-how-new-react-developers-should-think-vomhnlsv4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think | daily.dev og:description: React, a prominent JavaScript library for building user interfaces, enhances front-end development through reusable components and efficient UI management. New... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/react-mindset-how-new-react-developers-should-think-vomhnlsv4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/voMHnlSv4.png og:image:alt: React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # React Mindset: How New React Developers Should Think **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 6 min read · 2811 upvotes · 100 comments ## Summary React, a prominent JavaScript library for building user interfaces, enhances front-end development through reusable components and efficient UI management. New developers should adopt key principles such as thinking in components, embracing declarative programming, understanding state and props, prioritizing composition over inheritance, managing unidirectional data flow, mastering JSX, using hooks, and testing/debugging early to create modular, scalable, and maintainable applications. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rcrd** · 52 upvotes > This is so good I would go further and say this isn't only a beginners mindset guide, but something to read and remember from time to time. With many full-stack developers coming into React from back-end applied languages, is easy te have your codebase dragged into a O.O.P. heavy inheritance-based way of thinking. The app will run, the value delivery will be made, but the code will rapidly become a messy hell to maintain. **@dancodecraft** · 4 upvotes > I recently started learning React, and this post is very helpful. > > Thanks for sharing 😀 **@dorogonov** · 2 upvotes > I just was "open to work" and the job market says that it's better to switch to something else from React as the competition is the highest in this category? What do you think? > The article itself looks great, thanks. **@shaswat\_shrivas** · 2 upvotes > Great Article! I particularly liked how you highlighted the importance of thinking in components and embracing declarative programming. These are essential concepts for any developer starting with React. Your breakdown makes complex ideas approachable, and it’s a great guide for anyone looking to build better, scalable applications. **@sulaimonaa** · 2 upvotes > A very good article. 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Your breakdown makes complex ideas approachable, and it’s a great guide for anyone looking to build better, scalable applications.","datePublished":"2024-09-27T03:47:43.450Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/voMHnlSv4#c-vzpDjqrAh","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Shaswat Shrivas","url":"https://daily.dev/shaswat_shrivas","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--LNnM28mC--/f_auto/v1774193329/avatars/avatar_RslRc74HTXYv9Xn0Nwv4n?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"A very good article. 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