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Alfie Campbell
The CSS guy!
If you see the source code of many ReactJS webapps, there's a data attribute in every HTML tag. What's the importance of data attribute?
Prashant Abhishek
Co-founder at AltCampus
The data attribute i.e. data-reactid is used by React to identify elements in DOM. I guess React also uses data attributes to keep track of different versions of an element that is used while running the diffing algorithm.
Prashant Abhishek
Co-founder at AltCampus
The data attribute i.e. data-reactid is used by React to identify elements in DOM. I guess React also uses data attributes to keep track of different versions of an element that is used while running the diffing algorithm.