Design Patterns · Junior · Question 70 of 75

What's the purpose of a fallback UI (e.g. a React error boundary)?

✓Correct answer: To show a friendly message for a broken part of the page instead of crashing the whole app
2To hide all errors
3To retry requests automatically

Explanation

Placing boundaries around independent widgets keeps the rest of the page usable.

Further reading

react.dev: Error Boundaries ↗

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