Mounting is the phase in the React component lifecycle where a component is inserted into the DOM for the first time.
In more concise terms, mounting refers to the process of creating a new component instance, initializing its properties and state, and inserting it into the DOM tree. This is typically done when a component is first rendered onto the page.
During the mounting phase, React calls a series of lifecycle methods such as constructor(), getDerivedStateFromProps(), render(), componentDidMount(), etc.
constructor(props): This method is called first and is used to initialize the component's state and bind methods.
static getDerivedStateFromProps(props, state): This method is called next and is used to update the component's state based on changes to its props.
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componentDidMount(): This method is called last and is used to perform any side-effects such as fetching data from a server.