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React Lifecycle Event: componentWillReceiveProps
An overview of one of ReactJS's useful lifecycle events: componentWillReceiveProps
I discovered a pretty useful lifecycle event in React. I’ve typically only stuck to getInitialState, componentWillMount, and Render, but I jsut discovered componentWillReceiveProps.
This essentially gets called every time the component will receive a new or updated prop. This is really useful when you want to set a state equal to prop more than once in its lifecycle. The syntax is:
componentWillReceiveProps(props) {
...
}
Try this out when you can! It’s really useful.
Posted in Web Development with ReactJS