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Document behaviour for rendering true

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Description

See https://reactjs.org/docs/conditional-rendering.html.

When discussing conditional rendering, it's stated that React ignores falses, but it's not clear what happens in the true case. For instance, this.props.shouldSkip || dom.div(null, ...). I'm pretty sure that the actual behaviour is that all booleans are ignored, but it would be nice if it was firmly documented.

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Research direction

Start with the conditional rendering documentation at reactjs.org/docs/conditional-rendering.html and review the discussion of falsy values alongside the provided this.props.shouldSkip example. Confirm how boolean true is rendered or ignored, then update the documentation so the behavior of boolean values is explicit and the example is unambiguous.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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