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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 is a small view rendering library that works in components.

How does React interact with the DOM?

React diff a virtual DOM against the actual DOM to to handle state changing and re-rendering.

JSX

Why did they make JSX?

Component hierarchy

Trickle down that works!

State vs Props

I dig PropTypes - would be cool to see it in the code example.

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