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React Quickly, Second Edition
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React Quickly, Second Edition

by Morten Barklund, Azat Mardan
December 2023
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 17m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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4 Functional Components

This chapter covers

  • Introducing functional components
  • Comparing functional components to class-based components
  • Choosing between the two types of component definitions
  • Converting a class-based component to a functional component

React was based on class-based components for a long time in the early years, but an alternative came along for the simplest of components at some point. Functional components are a more succinct and, in some regards, simpler way of writing React components, and they now have the same feature set as their class-based cousins.

The term functional component isn’t meant as a contrast to a nonfunctional component—no one has any use for those. Rather, the functional part refers to the component definition ...

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