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Need a separate description for prevState

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Description

I hope it could be helpful for beginners to understand how to get the initial state value. As you could notice on the next page we have handling events where they have used the prevState.

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Research direction

Review the beginner state explanation and the following handling-events documentation page mentioned in the issue. Determine where prevState is introduced, then separate the explanation of the initial state value from the prevState usage; done means beginners can distinguish the two concepts.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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