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Going from Data to UI in React
When you’re building your apps, thinking in terms of props, state, components, JSX tags, render methods, and other React-isms might be the last thing on your mind. Most of the time, you’re dealing with data in the form of JSON objects, arrays, and other data structures that have no knowledge (or interest) in React or anything visual. Bridging the gulf between your data and what you eventually see can be frustrating! Not to worry, though. This chapter helps reduce some of those frustrating moments by running through some common scenarios you’ll encounter.
The Example
To help make sense of everything you’re about to see, we need an example. It’s nothing too complicated, so go ahead and create a new HTML document ...
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