# Using React with Pinegrow?

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/using-react-with-pinegrow/4846>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/using-react-with-pinegrow/4846 "2021-01-18T06:35:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![excede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@excede](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/excede)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/using-react-with-pinegrow/4846/1 "2021-01-18T06:35:04Z")

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Is it possible to use REACT in conjunction with PINEGROW?  
I want to be able to design (and make regular design changes) in pinegrow so wondering if anyone knows a workflow that will allow me to work with my devloper (Nodejs and react).

Thanks you

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**Author:** ![RobM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RobM](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/RobM)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/using-react-with-pinegrow/4846/2 "2021-01-18T10:24:17Z")

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Hi @excede,  
The answer is, sort of… Pinegrow won’t choke on easy JSX. So if you have something like `<h1>My name is {this.props.name}</h1>` It will display it, without variable substitution, of course. But if you bring in a file with an onClick that uses ES6 arrow functions, the code will get mangled. Pinegrow also doesn’t do well with small snippets of HTML like you would have in a component. So, it depends on the project whether Pinegrow is useful. If you have a large amount of almost straight HTML, then yes, a lot of little components, then no.  
Bob