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[Typo]: Repeaded words in Pitfall section #8622
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Summary
Repeated words on this line inside the Pitfall
Page url: https://react.dev/learn/preserving-and-resetting-state
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the first child of the first child of the root
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https://react.dev/learn/preserving-and-resetting-state
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Dextheking1 commentedon Sep 18, 2026
I looked into this and I don't think it's a typo -- the nesting is intentional.
The page itself establishes the terminology a few sections up ("you always have a
<Counter />as the first child of thedivreturned from the rootAppcomponent"). So here "the root" is theAppcomponent:App<div>Appreturns<Counter />That's exactly the "address" the sentence is describing for the two counters. If you dropped a level ("the first child of the root"), it would point at the
<div>, not the counters, which would be factually wrong.So the repeated "first child of the" is doing real work here, not a copy-paste slip. Happy to be corrected if I'm misreading it!