reading-notes

React and Components

Component Based Architecture

• What is a component?
  • Modular, portable, replaceable, and reusable set of functional code
• What are the characteristics of a component?
  • Reusable
  • Replaceable
  • Not context specific
  • Extensible
  • Encapsulated
  • Independent
• What are the advantages of using component based architecture?
  • faster development time due to reusing components instead of building from nothing every time
  • increased reliability from reusing previously working code
  • Easy of deployment
  • Reduced Cost
  • Ease of Development
  • Reusable
  • Modification of Technical Complexity
  • Reliability
  • System Maintenance and Evolution
  • Independent

Props

• What is props short for?
  • Properties
• How are props used in React?
  • Passing data from one component to another
• What is the flow of props?
  • Uni-directional
    • one way - from parent to child
  • read only
    • should not be changed by child components

Things I Want to Know More About

• React keywords
• href vs src

Resources

• Component Based Architecture

• Props

• React Docs