What Does React Do with All These Components?
If you follow the trail of all components and their import + export
statements to the top, you will find a root.render(...)
instruction in the main entry script of the React project. Typically, this main entry script can be found in the index.js file, located in the project's src/
folder. This render()
method, which is provided by the React library (to be precise, by the react-dom
package), takes a snippet of JSX code and interprets and executes it for you.
The complete snippet you find in the root entry file (index.js
) typically looks like this:
import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client'; import './index.css'; import App from './App'; const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')); root.render(<App />);
The exact code you find in your new React project might...