FAQ: PropTypes - Apply PropTypes

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Apply PropTypes” exercise from the lesson “PropTypes”.

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Learn ReactJS: Part II

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Why is PropTypes in camel case when its called on the component? I was anticipating it being PropTypes like the import naming.

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While I don’t have prior knowledge about propTypes, I think this is because the camel case propTypes is just the name chosen for the static method we define on the component class. It’s not yet using the imported library at this point, it’s just an arbitrary name for the method set to the object that will contain the propTypes, and as such it should be camel cased. Only the values of the proptypes added that object will actually use the PropTypes which then need to be capitalised.