Initial Rendering Phase: This is the phase when the component is about to start its life journey and make its way to the DOM.
Updating Phase: Once the component gets added to the DOM, it can potentially update and re-render only when a prop or state change occurs. That happens only in this phase.
Unmounting Phase: This is the final phase of a component’s life cycle in which the component is destroyed and removed from the DOM.
Methods
componentWillMount() – Executed just before rendering takes place both on the client as well as server-side.
componentDidMount() – Executed on the client side only after the first render.
componentWillReceiveProps() – Invoked as soon as the props are received from the parent class and before another render is called.
shouldComponentUpdate() – Returns true or false value based on certain conditions. If you want your component to update, return true else return false. By default, it returns false.
componentWillUpdate() – Called just before rendering takes place in the DOM.
componentDidUpdate() – Called immediately after rendering takes place.
componentWillUnmount() – Called after the component is unmounted from the DOM. It is used to clear up the memory spaces.