React is a JavaScript library for building UI components. The ecosystem of React is really immense which eventually makes it one of the best front-end libraries
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Why React?
1. Reusable components 2. Fast due to virtual DOM 3. Huge ecosystem
A typical React app contain many components. They are reusable and can interact with each other.
What is a component?
- Component as a simple function that you can call with some input and they render some output
React Hooks are the functions which "hook into" React state and lifecycle features from function components. Hooks allows you to manipulate state and other React feature without writing a class. Let's talk about widely used hook
useEffect hook at a glance π§΅ππ»
useEffect hook is the heart of React functional components
If you're familiar with class components then you might know that we have various lifecycle methods but in functional components, we don't have any lifecycle methods. Instead we have a powerful hook called useEffect
By using useEffect, you tell React that your component needs to do something after render. React will remember the function you passed (we'll refer to it as our βeffectβ), and call it later after performing the DOM updates