Components as Units of Work
summary
Claim: components serve as small units of work that encapsulate lifecycle logic instead of just UI. Uses React plus simple intervals and instance flags to check deployed version and force a reload when client and server versions diverge, demonstrating a concrete, working version-check and refresh component that returns null or a refresh element. Shows patterns like returning null from render and use keys to remount, cites React Router’s Redirect and an internal lifecycle helper, and suggests hooks map cleanly to this idea.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Who am I
- 0:41Components
- 0:52Component Functionality
- 1:26How to orchestrate functionality
- 1:47Using components
- 2:07Using hooks
- 2:27Using keys
- 2:46Using logic
- 3:46Redirect
- 4:28React Doc
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