Why React?

React is quickly becoming the go-to solution for frontend web applications. Why? This is because it's fast, elegant, and makes managing large applications easy.

In other words, it makes complexity simple. There's no reason a PWA has to use React, though. PWAs can be any web app or site.

React does have one major benefit--its component pattern, where UIs are split into distinct pieces. As we'll see, the component pattern lets us break our interface into small chunks of code to alleviate the preceding JavaScript downloading issue. However, other than that, any frontend framework will work just as well for a PWA.

The advantage of React is that it is a beautiful and fun way to build frontend applications. It's also an in-demand skill. If you pair knowledge of React with experience with PWAs, you'll be about as future-ready as one can be in the fast-moving web development world.