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Conrad Casper
4,082 PointsWhy do you give initialPlayers={} as a prop to the rendered App component instead of the actual App component itself?
in past examples, it seemed like you would pass down props directly from parent to child. I guess maybe this is a special case since the players array is a global variable?
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Steve Gallant
14,943 PointsHi Conrad, I'll take a shot, though I'm new to React as well.
The initialPlayers array contains data that may need to be changed (and probably will be later in this project). Most likely, it will be created dynamically by the app user. Because React functions must be "pure" and cannot change prop values, the data must be located outside the App function so it can be changed. When App is called with the array passed in to props, it can do it's job of iterating through the array and calling the necessary components to be rendered.
hth, Steve
Thierry Mwamba
2,991 PointsConrad, If you take a closer look he's giving it to the <App /> component, because that's where the component is being rendered. I hope it helps...