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React lifecycle cheatsheet

Method	Side effects¹	State updates²	Example uses
Mounting
`componentWillMount`		✓	Constructor equivalent for `createClass`
`render`			Create and return element(s)
`componentDidMount`	✓	✓	DOM manipulations, network requests, etc.
Updating
`componentWillReceiveProps`		✓	Update `state` based on changed `props`

	// Boring
	if (isThisAwesome) {
	alert('yes'); // it's not
	}

	// Awesome
	isThisAwesome && alert('yes');

	// Also cool for guarding your code
	var aCoolFunction = undefined;