This community-built FAQ covers the "Pass a Component’s State " exercise from the lesson “Stateless Components From Stateful Components”.
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Learn ReactJS: Part II
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Is there any difference in usage between state and props?
Why didnt we need to export Child component to be able to use it in Parent?
alright so the way that Im understanding props and state is like this…Props are only the variable passed to a child component by it’s Parent component. So in this lesson…{this.props.name} is that variable. its saying hey…the parent will be passing you a name variable at some point. BUT the state…is the data that the parent holds. thats why you set the state in the parent. I still have questions on this subject too but so far I think im understanding this right,
I’m curious - for what reason would you want to pass props to a stateless component? I couldn’t find any answers online so I’m seeking clarification. Is it due to the ‘Single responsibility’ principle? This way you can separate the components that handle rendering and the components that handle data collection.
This is using class to pass from parent to child, what about hooks, how would you pass from parent hook to child hook page?