Handling newlines with React

Suppose you have a Javascript variable containing multiple lines of text that you want to render in your React component. More or less you would have the following code:

This might look unexpected at first, but it’s actually how text is displayed as default in HTML documents. In fact, text inside a container element is displayed following these rules:

This is also the reason why we use <br /> so often in our code to force a line break.
Let's see how we can instead display the string above respecting line breaks.

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