Getting started with React

React is an insanely powerful framework by the amazing developers over at Facebook. Implementing a virtual DOM, it allows us to render components super fast whilst removing any unnecessary overhead from DOM operations. React is often said to deal with the "V" out of the MVC architecture, however when you mix this with Flux, you can have a full blown front-end framework that allows you to easily keep your model and view in sync - more on Flux soon.