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packages/react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Components/InspectedElementContext.js

@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ export function InspectedElementContextController({children}: Props) {
 
  const refresh = useCacheRefresh();
 
- // Track the paths insepected for the currently selected element.
+ // Temporarily stores most recently-inspected (hydrated) path.
+ // The transition that updates this causes the component to re-render and ask the cache->backend for the new path.
+ // When a path is sent along with an "inspectElement" request,
+ // the backend knows to send its dehydrated data even if the element hasn't updated since the last request.
  const [state, setState] = useState<{|
  element: Element | null,
  path: Array<number | string> | null,
@@ -97,7 +100,8 @@ export function InspectedElementContextController({children}: Props) {
  [setState, state],
  );
 
- // Reset path
+ // Reset path now that we've asked the backend to hydrate it.
+ // The backend is stateful, so we don't need to remember this path the next time we inspect.
  useEffect(() => {
  if (state.path !== null) {
  setState({