React 1 - Hello React

This is the beginning of a more detailed introduction to building React based applications. For those looking for a super fast introduction refer to my other blogpost. Todays goal is to get a basic component up and running, transpile the JSX and ES6 and finally the the result in our browser.

ES6 need to know

ES6 is out, browser support is actually decent and if that is not enough for you there is always Babel. So lets get up to speed with the most important and awesome new features.

Let there be Const

Scope in JavaScript come unfamiliar to most. Because we have a thing called "variable hosting" that pulls all variables out and defines them at the top of their Scope. Their Scope being either the global one or the first surrounding function. The classic example here is a for loop.