FAQ: Updating/Unmounting Lifecycle Methods - componentWillReceiveProps

This community-built FAQ covers the “componentWillReceiveProps” exercise from the lesson “Updating/Unmounting Lifecycle Methods”.

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Web Development

Learn ReactJS: Part II

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UPD: the game will be fixed in next chapter,
no worries !

Following on from the previous exercise. This method is apparently UNSAFE now and has been since 2018.
I am new to react and going through the codecademy in 2020 and think this section needs updating badly.

componentWillMount
componentWillRecieveProps
and componentWillUpdate are all not supported by the newest React updates.

Check out


To learn how to not use this!

I will be doing the same!

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