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React in theory
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Use this gist to write down notes and questions as you read through the lesson plan. https://github.com/turingschool/lesson_plans/blob/master/ruby_04-apis_and_scalability/react_in_theory.markdown

What does React do?

It allows users to build small reusable compoents which displays data.

How does React interact with the DOM?

Each component has a render() function that will be called when the component is mounted on the DOM. It will execute all the code in component and render the JS/HTML.

JSX

JS extension that looks similar to XML.

Component hierarchy

State vs Props

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