Why we needed React


Before React, building complex UIs meant copying and pasting the same code everywhere. It was tedious and error-prone.

Let's understand the problems React solves and why components changed everything.

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In the previous module, you built websites with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It works β€” but as projects grow, you start copying the same code everywhere, and things get messy fast.

This lesson explains why developers created React and how it solves these problems with a simple but powerful idea: components.

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