Love it or loathe it, JSX has made a big impact on front-end engineering. Here's a code-first intro to the HTML-based JavaScript templating language. JSX is a way to write HTML inside of JavaScript, ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

For all the awesomeness that React brings to the table, getting started with it is not the most straightforward process. It has a steep learning curve filled with many small and big hurdles. Here, I ...