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React concepts and jargon

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React concepts and jargon

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- [Instructor] We know that React manages and displays data. Let's talk a little bit about what that means conceptually. We'll go over some of the concepts and jargon that you'll experience when working with React and reading through the documentation. First of all, React helps to visualize data. When we're creating web pages or working with CMS as the generate pages for us, in a sense we're just displaying data. Our data might be products in a store, news articles, photographs and other artwork but in a sense, it's all data and of course at a lower level we all work with web forms which have their own data as well, the value in those fields. React is a user interface library that makes it easier to manage the data that's displayed in a user interface, in other words, visualizing the data. One way that React tries to make this easier is by its declarative nature. Often when we're building up interactive pages with unassisted JavaScript, J Query or what have you, we tie functions to…

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