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Dive Into React

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• A High Level Overview of React

Questions

• What is React?
  • Agnostic user interface Library
    • Agnostic = does not care where your final UI will be displayed
  • Used to make anything that the user interfaces with in the browser
• What is a component?
  • A small part of the code that builds the UI when working with React
• What is the dataflow of React?
  • One-way data flow, not two-way binding
• How do we make a React element a DOM element?
  • You have to pass the element through React DOM to make it a DOM element
  • Creating react.elements results in native JavaScript objects before being run through React DOM
• React is a User Interface ______.
  • Library
• Which direction does data flow in React?
  • One-way
  • Helps reduce number of break points in your data
  • React components pass down data from their parent components
• Every component manages its own ____.
  • Component state
  • Each parent component can pass down its state to its child components