Brenda Rios - React-timeline - Octos

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React Timeline

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Explain what purpose a component serves in React?	Components serves in React to split the UI into reusable and independent portions, and think about each of them in isolation. Components render html blocks in a structured and formatted way and for now every component is a class and they should return only one parent element. Components have their own appearance and behavior.
How does adding dynamic content to a web page in React compare to jQuery?	Components can be reusable more easily than changes to html made using jQuery. React using the virtual DOM and components can then update a page only a certain portion instead of updating the whole page.
How did you use props in this project?	I used props to pass information from timeline.json to create objects of the timeline event component.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	The lectures and exercises in class were good and easy to replicate in the project