Use this gist to write down notes and questions as you read through the lesson plan. https://github.com/turingschool/lesson_plans/blob/master/ruby_04-apis_and_scalability/react_in_theory.markdown
It interacts with the DOM in a more elgant way than jQuery. No more DOM traversal. We can use specific locations and not have to change our CSS or HTML based on new inherant logic.
It uses the Virtual DOM to communicate with the actual DOM and figure out what needs to be updated. We can setState()
and effectively tell React what to change in the event loop if a change has been requested.