Lifecycle Methods
Hook actions to specific moments in a component's life
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Component Mount
Unmounting Lifecycle Method
Component Mounting Phase
Lifecycle Phases
Mounting Lifecycle Methods
Updating Lifecycle Method
Component Mount
Component Mount
A React component mounts when it renders to the DOM for the first time. If it’s already mounted, a component can be rendered again if it needs to change its appearance or content.
Component Lifecycle Methods
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- 1We’ve seen that React components can be highly dynamic. They get created, rendered, added to the DOM, updated, and removed. All of these steps are part of a component’s lifecycle. The component …
- 2React components have several methods, called lifecycle methods, that are called at different parts of a component’s lifecycle. This is how you, the programmer, deal with the lifecycle of a compo…
- 3We’ve made a clock component, but it’s static. Wouldn’t it be nice if it updated? At a high level, we’d like to update this.state.date with a new date once per second. JavaScript has a helpful fu…
- 4Our clock is working, but it has an important problem. We never told the interval to stop, so it’ll keep running that function forever (or at least, until the user leaves/refreshes the page). When…
- 5Remember the three parts of a component’s lifecycle: 1. Mounting, when the component is being initialized and put into the DOM for the first time 2. Updating, when the component updates as a r…
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