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You have completed React Basics!
You have completed React Basics!
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Let’s go over the key concepts you learned in this stage.
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- Your First Component
- Using a component
- Break the UI into a component hierarchy
- Nesting and organizing components
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In this stage, we continued our learning
journey by jumping into React Components.
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Components are the building
blocks of a React application,
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allowing us to create reusable and
modular pieces of UI.
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To kick things off, we created our
first component, the Header component.
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We discovered that defining a component
in React is as straightforward
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as creating a function,
with the key requirement being that
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the component names should always
begin with a capital letter.
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This naming convention is crucial for
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React to differentiate between
components and regular HTML tags.
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Once we created our Header component, we
were ready to display it in the browser.
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Similar to HTML tags,
we use the component's name as
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the JSX tag and
past it to the root dot render method.
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This allowed us to effortlessly
render our component on the screen.
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We repeated this process for the item and
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counter components which brought us
to the concept of nesting components.
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We needed a way to render the counter
component in the item component.
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React allows components to be
nested inside one another.
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This nesting capability allows
us to construct intricate
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user interfaces by composing
smaller reusable components.
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Finally, we assembled all our
components into an app component,
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forming the foundational
structure of our application.
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However, our app is static.
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In the next stage, you'll learn how
to insert dynamic information into
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components using properties,
also known as props.
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See you soon.
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