Since the React community is relatively new, the idea of React best practices is still being defined. Here at reddit we have had several React apps in production for several months now. We have coded them with a few different methodologies and we have arrived at some core, best practices as a result of this battle-won knowledge. Since we learned a lot of this through trial and error, we would love to share with the community our best practices in an effort to impart these lessons without the pain of experiencing them and to further the dialog surrounding React best practices.We'll talk about:React, its purpose, and why you may want to use it.Some battle-won React best practices as a result of having React code in productionThis weird, cool, new JavaScript dialect called JSX and why you want it.