ReactJS.NET blog post
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+title: "Use React and JSX in ASP.NET MVC"
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+author: Daniel Lo Nigro
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+Today we're happy to announce the initial release of
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+[ReactJS.NET](http://reactjs.net/), which makes it easier to use React and JSX
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+in .NET applications, focusing specifically on ASP.NET MVC web applications.
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+It has several purposes:
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+ - On-the-fly JSX to JavaScript compilation. Simply reference JSX files and they
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+ will be compiled and cached server-side.
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+ ```html
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+ <script src="@Url.Content("/Scripts/HelloWorld.jsx")"></script>
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+ ```
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+ - JSX to JavaScript compilation via popular minification/combination libraries
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+ (Cassette and ASP.NET Bundling and Minification). This is suggested for
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+ production websites.
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+ - Server-side component rendering to make your initial render super fast.
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+Even though we are focusing on ASP.NET MVC, ReactJS.NET can also be used in
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+Web Forms applications as well as non-web applications (for example, in build
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+scripts). ReactJS.NET currently only works on Microsoft .NET but we are working
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+on support for Linux and Mac OS X via Mono as well.
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+Installation
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+------------
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+ReactJS.NET is packaged in NuGet. Simply run `Install-Package React.Mvc4` in the
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+package manager console or search NuGet for "React" to install it.
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+[See the documentation](http://reactjs.net/docs) for more information. The
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+GitHub project contains
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+[a sample website](https://github.com/reactjs/React.NET/tree/master/src/React.Sample.Mvc4)
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+demonstrating all of the features.
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+Let us know what you think, and feel free to send through any feedback and
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+report bugs [on GitHub](https://github.com/reactjs/React.NET).