
S1:E5 - How to learn React and React Native on a deadline (Brent Vatne, Kim Goulbourne)
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The Virtual DOM in Teaching
React is a new programming language that lets developers write code without having to use other languages. It uses the DOM, or document object model, as its primary representation. When you modify the state of the DOM, it then makes the change onto a virtual version of the DOM which is not getting rendered by the browser. The goal of React is to generalize a lot of common patterns and make them more efficient.
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