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At CariCode, we build all our web applications with React JS, a scalable technology developed and maintained by Facebook.

Advantages of Reactjs versus a CMS system like Wordpress

Design: With Wordpress you are constrained in the design and the way you organize your website. That is why all Wordpress sites look similar, and it becomes quickly expensive if you wish to create something unique.

Speed: Websites built using React JS are often 10 times faster than a site built with a legacy CMS like Wordpress. Additionally, the sites we build can be hosted on a CDN, you can serve it from whichever node is closest to your users. Someone viewing your site in a coffee shop in Vienna pulls from a European server, not a server in Silicon Valley.

Security: Google Cloud Platform offers superior security unlike Wordpress which has significant security flaws. By conservative estimate, 70% of all WordPress installs are vulnerable to known security exploits. With a site built on GCP, you don’t have to worry about malicious code being injected into your site when users visit it. Our sites are built on a production machine by static site generators, which take your code and spit out flat HTML files with CSS and JavaScript. When a user requests a page from your site, the server just sends them the file for that page, instead of building that page from various assets each time. No build process means standard hacking attacks like scripting or database security exploits just don’t work.

Updates: Updates with Wordpress are a big issue. There are breaking changes and some plugins stop working. Most of the plugins are developed by people in their free time and not by professional programmers — and do not meet a professional, secure standard.

Smaller Footprint: Your WordPress install is a medley of cobbled together software and hardware, including: a machine running Linux, a web server, PHP with its associated extensions and web server configurations, MySQL, WordPress, all the plugins you need, your theme and template code

A React JS site by contrast, when generated, is capable of being hosted on any web server that can return HTML files (which gives you a whole range of options).

Reliability: React JS is extremely reliable with no database errors and can be hosted anywhere and everywhere

Scalability As you grow your business and when you have to scale, the right technology matters. Websites built with CMS solutions like Wordpress will need to access the server with every page request especially as you grow and need more complex code. With React JS, scalability is barely an issue. Increased requests mean increased pages served, but no extra work in building those pages.

Flexibility Your basic site built with WordPress starts out as a one-size-fits-all solution that is then customized by bolting on plugins. A lot of plugins. With a React JS sites, you can get lean and mean, with a tool that does exactly what you need it to

React JS is Used by all major technology firms including Uber, Twitter, Netflix and Airbnb.

Examples of Companies Using React