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@ -40,23 +40,6 @@ React is a front-end framework which is designed to make building a Single Page
## Create a basic component
- Let's create a component which is just an H1 tag
- We'll insert it into the `main` tag of our html
```JavaScript
ReactDOM.render(
<h1 className="foo">Hello, world!</h1>,
document.querySelector('main')
);
```
- This code will find the main tag and render an `h1` tag inside of it
- **NOTE** we can't set class with the `class` attribute anymore
- We have to use className so it doesn't get confused
- All other attributes should work normally
- React mixes HTML with JavaScript (JSX)
- Notice that the HTML does not have quotes or backticks around it
Let's set up the HTML
```HTML
@ -88,6 +71,23 @@ Let's talk about all those script tags
- Babel is a transpiler that will translate ES6 code to ES5
- it also handles turning JSX into regular JS
- Let's create a component which is just an H1 tag
- We'll insert it into the `main` tag of our html
```JavaScript
ReactDOM.render(
<h1 className="foo">Hello, world!</h1>,
document.querySelector('main')
);
```
- This code will find the main tag and render an `h1` tag inside of it
- **NOTE** we can't set class with the `class` attribute anymore
- We have to use className so it doesn't get confused
- All other attributes should work normally
- React mixes HTML with JavaScript (JSX)
- Notice that the HTML does not have quotes or backticks around it
## Assign JSX to a variable
JSX just renders into regular JavaScript, so we can assign it to variable:

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