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React 16 Tooling
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React 16 Tooling

by Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Components that compare render trees

The first part of the React core is the package called react. This package is what we interface with directly when writing React components. It's a small API—the only time we really use it is when we're creating components with state and we need to extend the Component class.

There's a lot going on under the hood with the react package. This is where the render tree resides and is responsible for efficiently rendering UI elements. Another name for the render tree is the virtual DOM. The idea is that you only have to write JSX markup that describe the UI elements that you want to render while the render tree takes care of everything else:

What you see in this diagram are the components that your code directly ...

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