title: What does it mean to hydrate and dehydrate a Laravel Livewire component?
body: <p>Could someone point me to a definition of &quot;hydrate&quot; and &quot;dehydrate&quot; as it applies to Livewire components?  The only hit in the documentation search refers to</p>
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  <p>Livewire will take care of hydrating and dehydrating the model between requests with the current, non-persisted data.</p>
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  <p>In the Lifecycle hooks section, the hydrate and dehydrate class hooks are self referential.</p>
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  <p>hydrate: Runs on every request after the component is hydrated...</p>
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  <p>Responses to similar questions have indicated that hydration is filling a object with data after it's been instantiated -- that kinda makes sense, but what would &quot;dehydrating&quot; an object would be?</p>