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Andrea Chiarelli
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Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he has been involved in: from C# to JavaScript, from Angular to React, from ASP.NET to PhoneGap/Cordova. He has contributed to many online and offline magazines and has been the author of a few books published by Wrox Press and Packt. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, Inc. and a regular contributor to HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies. You can follow him on Twitter at @andychiare.
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Component Lifecycle Events


In a React application, components are created dynamically, according to the evolution of the application at runtime. A user's interaction starts a component's creation, its visualization, its updates on the screen, and its destruction.

So, components go through different phases during application execution: these phases represent their lifecycles.

React allows us to intercept and manage the phases of a component's lifecycle in a customized way, thanks to a set of events that we can handle by implementing specific methods.

Before analyzing a component's lifecycle events, we should highlight that the first step in creating a component is the execution of its constructor. Although it is not one of React's lifecycle phases, it is the first step of a component's life. During the component's constructor execution, the DOM is not available, and it is not possible to access any child component. The constructor execution is the right time to perform the initializations that...

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Andrea Chiarelli

Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he has been involved in: from C# to JavaScript, from Angular to React, from ASP.NET to PhoneGap/Cordova. He has contributed to many online and offline magazines and has been the author of a few books published by Wrox Press and Packt. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, Inc. and a regular contributor to HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies. You can follow him on Twitter at @andychiare.
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