6 Effects and the React component life cycle
This chapter covers
- Running effects inside components
- A complete guide to the React component life cycle
- Mounting, unmounting, and rendering components
- Introducing life cycle methods for class-based components
React components use JavaScript XML (JSX) to send information to the user in the form of HTML. But components need to do a lot more than that to be useful in an application. In React, everything that happens, happens in some component, so if your application wants to set a cookie, load some data, handle form input, display the user’s camera, start or stop a timer, or a myriad of other dynamic capabilities, you need more than just JSX.
If you want your component to load some data from a server, ...
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