Class 05 Reading Notes

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1. Thinking in React

• How would you break a mock into a component heirarchy? Divide by task/group/purpose/design/order
• What is the single responsibility principle and how does it apply to components? Single responsibility principle is that a component should ideally only do one thing
• What does it mean to build a ‘static’ version of your application? no interactivity, just structure code
• Once you have a static application, what do you need to add? interactivity
• What are the three questions you can ask to determine if something is state?
• How can you identify where state needs to live? It’s about one-way data flow, so identifying a common owner component is the key