React was designed to make the process of building modular, reusable user interface components simple and intuitive. In this course, Eve Porcello guides you through the foundations of React development, covering the JavaScript library's most popular features. She reviews components, elements, and state, as well as how to leverage the JSX syntax extension to improve your ability to nest elements within each other. Plus, she explains how to handle events in your apps, render components from a list, and generate an optimized production build with create-react-app.