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 title: Declarations
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-Svelte automatically updates the DOM when your component's state changes. Often, some parts of a component's state need to be computed from *other* parts (such as a `fullname` derived from a `firstname` and a `lastname`), and recomputed whenever they change.
+Svelte automatically updates the DOM when your component's state changes. Often, some parts of a component's state depends on *other* parts. For example, you may want to have `fullname` derived from `firstname` and `lastname` and also want to recompute `fullname` when `firstname` and/or `lastname` changes. 
 
 For these, we have *reactive declarations*. They look like this: