Think of React Components as State Machines, Not Functions

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When React Components moved from classes to functions, all the buzz was about transitioning from Object-Oriented Programming to Functional Programming. Functional programming has two goals in mind:

1. You get the same results when you provide the same inputs to a function.
2. The function’s only goal is to create an output. It doesn’t try to do…