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And then after it re-invokes the function and returns nodes,
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React will do its thing and compare nodes to what it has in its virtual dom
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and then go ahead and replace what's needed.
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And so on the other side of the coin, we have what's called a React.component.
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This is something that's actually provided by the React library
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and implemented for you.
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And it's an abstract class that can be extended to behave however you want.
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And so, in our example here and examples prior,
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we've been doing this thing where we create a class called whatever we want
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and we're actually extending this thing called a React component.
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And so what is a React.component?
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Well these things have additional features
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that stateless functional components do not.
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One of those, of course, is that they have instances so they're a class.
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And so when you invoke that class it returns an instance
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and that instance will persist throughout the lifetime of this class.
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As suggested by the name, it maintains its own state
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and so stateless components do not, whereas these React components do.
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They have this concept of state, and we talked about state
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in depth last lecture.
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One thing we didn't talk about last lecture
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is this thing called a lifecycle, it's lifecycle methods.
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And so these are similar to hooks or event handlers.
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And so we've used the event handlers before in both React Web and React
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Native.
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And these things are actually automatically invoked for you.
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You don't have to worry about exactly the implementation details
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or when to invoke your own functions.
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That's actually something that's done automatically.
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And so unlike stateless functional components,
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which just take props and return a node, a React components render function
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actually becomes a function of the props and also any class
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properties that exist.
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And so if you remember back to last lecture we talked about classes
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and how when you create a class instance,
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you might attach to it some properties.
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These properties can be values anywhere from functions
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to just primitives, objects.
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And so when you create a class component instance,
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you can actually use all of those class properties in that render method.
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And so we saw that over here when we created this addTODO
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where within the render we referenced this.addTODO in this button component
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here.
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And so, as you see, this is a class property which we actually
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used in our render method.
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And so this render method is actually a function of both props
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and any class properties like its state or these methods that we defined.
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Cool.
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So I talked about this thing called a lifecycle method,
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but what actually is a component lifecycle.
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And so a component lifecycle can actually be represented by this graph.
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And so first a component will mount and so some lifecycle hooks
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get called there, but that's basically that constructor where
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the class instance gets created and maybe its state gets instantiated.
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And then what it does is it renders.
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It will just put you to the page.
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And then every time we call set state or get new props we actually
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enter what's called an update cycle.
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And so when you receive new props, the component needs to update.
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It needs to re-render.
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And so part of its lifecycle is actually updating over and over.
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And this happens any time new props get received because it wouldn't really
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make sense if we had a component that when
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it received new props nothing changed.
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But also this update cycle happens every single time the state changes.
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So if you call this .setstate, you update state and presumably you have
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something in the UI that also updates.
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And so this update cycle will happen again.
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And every single time you update state, receive new props this update cycle
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will fire again.
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And then, when it's time for that component to disappear,
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it enters what's called the unmount stage where
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you have the chance to clean up anything that you
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may have created during that lifecycle.
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And so what actually does that mean in practice?
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So I said that there's this thing called mount,
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which is basically just a series of steps
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that happens when a component first gets mounted and rendered.
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And so the first thing that happens is the constructor gets called.
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And so, as we saw a few lectures ago when we talked about classes,
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the constructor is where we have a chance to add class properties
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or add anything to that instance that we need.
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And so here we might want to do stuff like initialize state
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or maybe add some other class properties like bound methods et cetera.
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Next what happens is we render, which is just the meat of the component.
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The main goal of any component is to show you why.
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And so, in this render method, that's exactly what happens.
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You take any properties that you have, any class properties that you have,
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and then you end up returning a node.
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And then after that this hook, that we haven't seen yet, gets
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called a component div mount.
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And this is the chance for you to do anything
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that you wanted to do that didn't really matter for render.
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And so if you have asynched actions, like standing network or passes.
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If you want to add timers and stuff like that this
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is exactly where you should do that.
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And then maybe you'll need to update the state accordingly.
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And so if you actually see that state here
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this will cause a re-render without updating the UI.
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And so all of this will happen before the UI re-renders.
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