Component composition
If you have learned any Object-Oriented (OO) language, you may have used inheritance extensively. In JavaScript, this concept is a little bit different. JavaScript inheritance is based on prototypes, and so we call it prototypal inheritance. Functionalities are not copied to the object itself—they are inherited from the prototype of the object and possibly even through other prototypes in the prototype tree. We call this a prototype chain.
However, in React, using inheritance is not very common. Thanks to components, we can embrace another pattern called component composition. Instead of creating a new class and inheriting from the base class, we will create a new parent component that will use its child component to ...
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