Elements

Question 1

What is a React element?

Answer 1

An element describes what you want to see on the screen: const element = <h1>Hello, world</h1>;

Question 2

What is React?

Answer 2

It is a a development server that uses Webpack to compile React, JSX, and ES6, auto-prefix CSS files.

Question 3

How do you mount a React element to the DOM?

Answer 3

“Mounting” is when React “renders” the component for the first time and actually builds the initial DOM from those instructions.
npx create-react-app my-app