Culture Index exists to catalog cultural institutions online, and highlight the best practices that inspire us.
Launching with a focus on museums and building from there, we are a resource for both research and discovery. Browse information about online communications, and discover ideas with examples of what’s possible for cultural institutions in the digital space.
As a community project facilitated by Base, we invite you to use and contribute to this growing resource.
React
React is an open-source JavaScript library developed by Facebook, used for building user interfaces, particularly single-page applications (SPAs). It allows developers to create dynamic, interactive web applications by using components—reusable pieces of code that manage their own state. React is known for its efficiency, as it uses a virtual DOM (Document Object Model) to update only the necessary parts of a web page, improving performance.
React’s component-based architecture makes it highly flexible and scalable, allowing developers to build complex UIs that are easy to maintain and expand over time. It's widely adopted due to its large ecosystem, extensive community support, and the ability to integrate with various other tools and libraries.
At Base, we commonly use Next.js, a React-based framework, for many of our projects. Next.js builds on React by adding essential features like server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG), which optimize performance and improve SEO for web applications. It also streamlines development by providing features such as routing, API routes, and automatic code splitting out of the box, making it easier to build fast, scalable, and SEO-friendly websites.
React provides the foundation for Next.js, and together, they offer a powerful combination for building modern, dynamic web applications that deliver a high-quality user experience.