React Tutorial for Beginners #1: What is React + Your First React App with Vite

Description: What is React, who created it, why it exists, and when should you use it? In this first episode of the BentHub React course, we answer all of that, then create our first React project with Vite and make it our own.

In this series, we build the BentHub Store: a real online store with React that loads real products from a free API, with search, a product page, a cart, and a checkout.

In this episode:
- What React is: a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- A short history: Jordan Walke at Facebook (2011), open source (2013), the React Foundation (2026)
- The problem React solves, components, and how React updates the screen
- Who uses React, and when to use it
- Creating a React project with Vite, npm install and npm run dev
- A tour of the project files
- Making the starter page our own

Chapters
0:00 The BentHub Store
0:47 What is React?
1:24 Who created React
1:59 Why React was created
2:26 Components and how React updates the screen
3:05 Who uses React, and when to use it
3:53 What you need
4:12 Create the project with Vite
5:04 Install and run
5:35 Project tour
6:40 Make it ours
7:26 What's next

You need: Node.js 20.19 or newer (nodejs.org), VS Code, and Chrome.

Next episode: JSX, and building the real store layout.

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