Thanks, and yeah, I got most of that from some Googling around afterwards, but I do want to note that I had encountered your first link, and that it itself is somewhat recursively defined with terminology that is glossed over:
ReactDOM.hydrate(element, container[, callback])
Same as render(), but is used to hydrate a container whose HTML contents were rendered by ReactDOMServer. React will attempt to attach event listeners to the existing markup.
Searching for hydrate in the React docs leads you to the hydrate method, which describes itself in terms of its use to hydrate a container. The crazy thing is that there's numerous blog posts that purport to tell you what react hydration is, which do the exact same thing and define it in terms of itself. Partly, this may be React (and the community's) reliance on you knowing what that concept is, but that's particularly unacceptable in article that purport to explain it.
Is it really so hard for these reference docs and explanatory sources to say something along the lines of "hydration in React is the act of fleshing out a server delivered model of the page that came with poor or no data with rich data delivered later in the process" ?
ReactDOM.hydrate(element, container[, callback])
Same as render(), but is used to hydrate a container whose HTML contents were rendered by ReactDOMServer. React will attempt to attach event listeners to the existing markup.
Searching for hydrate in the React docs leads you to the hydrate method, which describes itself in terms of its use to hydrate a container. The crazy thing is that there's numerous blog posts that purport to tell you what react hydration is, which do the exact same thing and define it in terms of itself. Partly, this may be React (and the community's) reliance on you knowing what that concept is, but that's particularly unacceptable in article that purport to explain it.
Is it really so hard for these reference docs and explanatory sources to say something along the lines of "hydration in React is the act of fleshing out a server delivered model of the page that came with poor or no data with rich data delivered later in the process" ?