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What are hydration bubbles and how does React use them to allow partial interactive UI?

Expert React
Quick Answer Hydration bubbles are the units of progressive hydration รขโ‚ฌโ€ each Suspense boundary is a bubble that hydrates independently. React attaches event listeners to the document root before hydration completes (delegation). When a user interacts with an unhydrated bubble, React synchronously hydrates just that bubble and replays the event.

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Hydration bubbles hydrate children first, then expand upward, enabling selective interactivity.
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