What is meant by setState?

setState() setState(updater, [callback]) setState() enqueues changes to the component state and tells React that this component and its children need to be re-rendered with the updated state . This is the primary method you use to update the user interface in response to event handlers and server responses.

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setState() schedules an update to a component’s state object . When state changes, the component responds by re-rendering.

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