React Dev Reference React
React Dev Reference React
Hooks
React Reference Overview
Components
This section provides detailed reference documentation for working with React. For an
APIs introduction to React, please visit the Learn section.
Directives Our The React reference documentation is broken down into functional subsections:
react-dom@18.2.0 React
Hooks
Programmatic React features:
Components
Hooks - Use different React features from your components.
APIs Components - Documents built-in components that you can use in your JSX.
APIs - APIs that are useful for defining components.
Client APIs
Directives - Provide instructions to bundlers compatible with React Server Components.
Server APIs
React DOM
Legacy APIs
React-dom contains features that are only supported for web applications (which run in the browser DOM
Legacy React APIs
environment). This section is broken into the following:
Hooks - Hooks for web applications which run in the browser DOM environment.
Components - React supports all of the browser built-in HTML and SVG components.
APIs - The react-dom package contains methods supported only in web applications.
Client APIs - The react-dom/client APIs let you render React components on the client (in the browser).
Server APIs - The react-dom/server APIs let you render React components to HTML on the server.
Legacy APIs
Legacy APIs - Exported from the react package, but not recommended for use in newly written code.
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Hooks
Managing State
Escape Hatches