The main thing that React does is keep our UI in sync with our application state. The tool that it uses to do this is called a “re-render” Each re-render is a snapshot of what the application's UI should look like at a given moment in time. For example, let's suppose our example also features a digital clock. We could potentially run into some performance problems if we wind up doing this work gratuitously.
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