It’s true — React was born out of Facebook. But it’s much more than that. So what is React? This video provides a quick overview of how React goes beyond the traditional model of building webpages — the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. React focuses on the View layer of the MVC framework to streamline using data to render a UI. At its heart, React is simply a JavaScript library.

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