The React Component Lifecycle 💀

 

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One of the trickier things to learn in React is this whole notion of lifecycle methods. Here is one way to think about them. We humans tend to celebrate important milestones in our life - milestones like birthdays ( 🍰), anniversaries ( 💍), getting a pet ( 🐱), earning the high score in Frogger ( 🕹️), eating your first grapefruit ( …