The phrasing on that statement sounds a bit off, and I'm not sure whether it's a real misunderstanding of how React works or just the way the sentence is writte

The phrasing on that statement sounds a bit off, and I'm not sure whether it's a real misunderstanding of how React works or just the way the sentence is written. React re-renders components recursively by default. If I call `setState()` in a component halfway down the tree, React starts its rendering pass at the root component, then skips quickly down the tree until it runs a cross a component that's been flagged as dirty and needing an update. From there, it recurses down through all descendants of that component and re-renders them as well, regardless of whether those components have any queued state updates or whether there are any changes to their props. For more details, see my extensive post "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior": https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-mostly-complete-guide-to-react-rendering-behavior/ https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...