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Learned some React today and figured I’d share my notes:

• JSX must return a single element, AKA a node, because otherwise ReactDOM.render() will throw a tantrum
• All elements in JSX must be closed, including <hr> and <br>, because JSX is pretending to be HTML
• Function names must start with a capital letter—it appears functions are actually classes in a trench coat
• React components have to be passed to the ReactDOM.render() method using markup syntax: ReactDOM.render(<Component />, targetNode). This is because– actually I have no fuckin clue, this is wack
• When passing an integer as a prop, you need to wrap it in curly braces, because they gave up halfway through making it look like HTML attributes
• JavaScript in JSX needs to be surrounded with curly braces because raw JavaScript is flammable and must be insulated