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💧 Absorbing water 🖥️ Making web pages interactive
hydration

hydration

7.2
The process of making server pages interactive in the browser by adding JavaScript
  • noun
  • /haɪˈdreɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : hidratación
  • During the hydration phase, the app becomes more responsive as it connects to the existing DOM structure.

Examples

  • When fiber is added to soil cement, the surface of fiber adheres to the hydration products of cement and some clay particles.

    Academic text (2016)

  • This results in higher heat due to the hydration of cement, which produces numerous microcracks due to drying and shrinkage deformation.

    Academic text (2016)

  • It was explained above that by adding cement to soil, the hydration products of cement cause cementation between the particles of soil and produce a mixture with strength greater than that of clay soil.

    Academic text (2016)

  • In web development, hydration involves turning server-rendered HTML into a fully interactive page by adding JavaScript.

  • Proper hydration allows developers to enhance the client-side experience with dynamic features and event handlers.

Compounds

water of hydration
  • Specialized
6.9

Water held inside a crystal as part of its structure

Surface Forms

hydration singular
hydrations plural

Morphology

hydration = hydrate (semi-transparent) = hydrate + ion

Formally built from 'hydrate' + '-ion', but the web-development sense is a technical metaphorical extension of the chemical meaning and not directly derivable by general learners.

Etymology

The word hydration comes from the Greek root hydor, which means 'water'. A helpful way to remember the web development meaning is to imagine 'watering' a dry, static page so it wakes up and becomes interactive when the code runs, which is why developers call that step hydration.