Chapter 5. React component lifecycle events
This chapter covers
- Getting a bird’s-eye view of React component lifecycle events
- Understanding event categories
- Defining an event
- Mounting, updating, and unmounting events
Chapter 2 provided information about how to create components, but there are certain situations in which you need more granular control over a component. For instance, you may be building a custom radio button component that can change in size depending on the screen width. Or perhaps you’re building a menu that needs to get information from the server by sending an XHR request.
One approach would be to implement the necessary logic before instantiating a component and then re-create it by providing different properties. ...
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