React summary

We have just covered everything we need to know to get started with React. Here's a short summary:

  • React is a front-end framework that takes in data and outputs a user interface (UI)
  • A React application consists of components being rendered inside one another
  • These React components correspond to real DOM nodes
  • React is performant because it minimizes DOM manipulation by using the Virtual DOM
  • React is declarative; we do not need to handle DOM manipulation ourselves

Next, we will start building our Register screen.

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