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 For the remainder of this tutorial, we'll be writing our JavaScript code in this script tag.
 
+> Note:
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+> We included jQuery here because we want to simplify the code of our future ajax calls, but it's **NOT** mandatory for React to work.
+
 ### Your first component
 
 React is all about modular, composable components. For our comment box example, we'll have the following component structure: