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Updating the Client: `flashMessage` Component

Understand how to update a React client by creating and integrating a FlashMessage component that displays temporary messages. This lesson guides you through passing state messages to the UI in authentication and game screens, enhancing user interaction feedback.

Updating component.js

In the previous updates, we’ve been assuming that setting the flashMessage field of state will show the message on the current screen, be it the sign-in screen or the game playing screen. To make this happen, we need to add a component that displays this message, and we need to pass the flashMessage down to it.

The component itself will be a simple p element containing the text, but only when it is ...