# Events in React | kirupa.com

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**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/events-in-react-kirupa-com/636202 "2017-03-20T01:44:29Z")\
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So far, all of our examples only did their work on page load. As you probably guessed, that isn't normal. In most apps, especially the kind of UI-heavy ones we will be building, there is going to be a ton of things the app does only as a reaction to something. That **_something_** could be triggered by a mouse click, a key press, window resize, or a whole bunch of other gestures and interactions. The glue that makes all of this possible is something known as **events**.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/react/events\_in\_react.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/react/events_in_react.htm)