Glossary term
What is Hydration?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Hydration" means: React attaching its code to HTML that the server already sent, so the page becomes interactive. It is taught in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps. Related terms include localStorage, Route, Effect and Layout. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Hydration?
React attaching its code to HTML that the server already sent, so the page becomes interactive.
Where is Hydration taught?
Hydration is defined in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps.
Which terms are related to Hydration?
Next to Hydration in the course glossaries: localStorage, Route, Effect, Layout, Context, Dynamic route, Reducer and Server Component.
localStorageRouteEffectLayoutContextDynamic routeReducerServer Component
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Hydration?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate level:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps: Basic JavaScript: you can write a function, use variables with const and let, work with arrays and objects, and have seen map and filter. Modules 1 and 2 explain destructuring and spread the first time they appear.