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Working with External Data in React
Dealing with external data is pretty much standard in web apps today. This “dealing” typically looks as follows:
1. Your app makes a request for some data to a remote service.
2. The remote service receives the request and sends back some data.
3. Your app receives the data.
4. Your app formats and displays the data to the user.
Whether or not you realize it, almost all your favorite websites follow these four steps…Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, KIRUPA, and so on. When you starting loading a page on any of these sites, they all display some data initially.
To keep your initial page size ...
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