For reference, the key doesn't need to be uuid/distinct globally... it *can* be, but whatever the natural key is for your iteration is generally fine. Even if it's the text value itself, depending on the storage/persistence.
The reason for the key, is to minimize the DOM impact on large collections to only those nodes that have changed within whatever iterable/collection/array is used to populate the values. Without such a key, a large (many hundreds to thousands) of DOM nodes/elements within that collection could be completely recomposed, which can be visually noticeable to jarring/jittery in terms of usage.
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