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atombender
on April 18, 2017
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Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its R...
Fortunately, componentWillMount is largely made redundant by the use of constructors.
madeofpalk
on April 19, 2017
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Except it's not for when you actually want to know when the component was put into the DOM, or you're running react server-side
wayfarer2s
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> when you actually want to know when the component was put into the DOM
You can use componentDidMount for that and its semantics are still the same.
danabramov
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Yes, componentDidMount is the place to work with DOM. componentWillMount never worked this way—it is basically a glorified constructor from pre-ES6 era.
madeofpalk
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Oh apologies - I really the comment as componentDidMount. My bad.
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