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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook Easy solutions to common and everyday JavaScript development problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992749
Length 642 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with JavaScript Development Tools 2. Using Modern JavaScript Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing with Node 4. Implementing RESTful Services with Node 5. Testing and Debugging Your Server 6. Developing with React 7. Enhancing Your Application 8. Expanding Your Application 9. Debugging Your Application 10. Testing Your Application 11. Creating Mobile Apps with React Native 12. Testing and Debugging Your Mobile App 13. Creating a Desktop Application with Electron 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Composing components

Let's go back to the ExpandableCard, which we didn't quite finish before. We could certainly do a regions-specific card, but it seems that the general concept of a card that can be expanded or condensed is useful enough that we could prefer a more general solution. React allows us to do that via composition, as we'll see in this section.

How to do it...

The component we want to create could have any kind of content. (The same idea would apply to generic dialog boxes, header sections, or sidebars, by the way.) Instead of creating a base class and using inheritance to create multiple derived classes, React allows you to pass a special children prop (this.props.children) so that you can pass...

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