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    Curly braces

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    • Understanding State
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  • Marcus Ducklow
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    VS code ignoring css?

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    Why add the () outside the return statement when you omit the return {} syntax?

    Posted February 5, 2020 10:36pm by Joseph Butterfield
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    How does prevState reference this.state before change?

    Posted February 5, 2020 10:16pm by Joseph Butterfield
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  • Rachel Heneault
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    I'm confused why you'd use the callback when updating state? Seems like an extra step when it gave you the same results

    Posted October 24, 2019 10:38pm by Rachel Heneault
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  • lassek
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    Is my understanding of state handling correct?

    Posted October 22, 2019 11:08pm by lassek
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    Why use prevState?

    Posted April 13, 2019 10:19am by ammarkhan
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    Update state based on previous score

    Posted March 8, 2019 7:44am by Aakash Srivastav
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  • jlampstack
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    Why use {} curly braces for return inside setState() ?

    Posted February 17, 2019 12:49am by jlampstack
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  • Samuel Marques
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    How to make the decrement not exceed 0?

    Posted October 4, 2018 4:32pm by Samuel Marques
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