Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition

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Creating Complex Components

In Chapter 3, “Components in React,” you learned about components and all the awesome things that they do. You learned that components are the primary ways through which React enables our visual elements to behave like little reusable bricks that contain all the HTML, JavaScript, and styling needed to run themselves. Beyond reusability, components bring another major advantage to the table. They make possible composability. You can combine components to create more complex components.

In this chapter, we look at what all of this means. More specifically, we look at two points:

The boring technical stuff you need ...