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What is hydration in react?
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- Name
- Gene Zhang
Dan Abramov writes it as: “It’s like watering the “dry” HTML with the “water” of interactivity and event handlers.”
The server sends the client HTML along with a link to the JS to download. The JS gets downloaded and then “hydrates” the page taking it from a plain page to one with interactivity meaning adding handlers to buttons, events to elements on the page like onClick and so forth.