No, that's not possible in JavaScript. The important part is that React components are lazily evaluated[1] and are not rendered as a stack. So React can render

No, that's not possible in JavaScript. The important part is that React components are lazily evaluated[1] and are not rendered as a stack. So React can render a few components and then pause for higher priority work. As a user of the framework, you don't need to care about this though. So your mental model can be that of an interruptable function. [1]: https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/#lazy-evaluation https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/#lazy-evaluatio...