Kent C. Dodds 11/1/2019

Understanding React's key prop

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This article provides a detailed explanation of React's key prop, demonstrating its importance through a contact form example. It shows how changing the key forces React to create a new component instance, resetting the state (like an input field's value) and explains the underlying principles of component instances and state management.

Understanding React's key prop

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