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Beginning React
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Beginning React

by Andrea Chiarelli
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
96 pages
2h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Component Lifecycle Events

In a React application, components are created dynamically, according to the evolution of the application at runtime. A user's interaction starts a component's creation, its visualization, its updates on the screen, and its destruction.

So, components go through different phases during application execution: these phases represent their lifecycles.

React allows us to intercept and manage the phases of a component's lifecycle in a customized way, thanks to a set of events that we can handle by implementing specific methods.

Before analyzing a component's lifecycle events, we should highlight that the first step in creating a component is the execution of its constructor. Although it is not one of React's lifecycle ...

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