Are React re-renders bad?
No, they are the normal update mechanism. Re-renders are cheap for most components. Only optimize when a measured bottleneck exists; premature optimization adds overhead without benefit.
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State drives the UI. You describe the UI as a function of state, and when state changes, React re-renders so the UI reflects the new state. Conditional rendering, list rendering with map, and derived values are the main patterns.
With ternaries for either/or, logical AND for show-if-true, and early returns to hide a component entirely. Choose the pattern that keeps your JSX cleanest for each case.
Use map to render an array of data into a list of elements, giving each element a stable unique key so React updates the list efficiently when the data changes.
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