The right level of abstraction
The final topic I want to cover at a high level before we dive into React code is abstraction. React doesn't have a lot of it, and yet the abstractions that React implements are crucial to its success.
In the preceding section, you saw how JSX syntax translates to low-level operations that we have no interest in maintaining. The more important way to look at how React translates our declarative UI components is the fact that we don't necessarily care what the render target is. The render target happens to be the browser DOM with React. But, this is changing.
The theme of this book is that React has the potential to be used for any user interface we want to create, on any conceivable device. We're only just starting ...
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