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JavaScript React Components (2018) Build Modular Interfaces with Components Separating Function Components Into Modules

Posted by Magnus Martin
Magnus Martin
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Difference between Module and Component.

Where exactly is the difference between Module and Component? I know there are ES Modules. The folder in the project is named components. It's where modules live in files?!

Routine Poutine
Routine Poutine
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Routine Poutine
Routine Poutine
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I'm pretty sure modules are pre-written software that are either included in an environment like the browser or Nodejs or something of your own doing. If it needs to be downloaded, its a package. In contrast, components are classes or functions written in React. I'm not sure what makes React a library rather than a module -- size?

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Magnus Martin
Magnus Martin
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Magnus Martin
Magnus Martin
44,123 Points

Coming back to my own question a a couple of years later ;) I think it is meant like this: We break the App down in logical components or units like Header, Footer etc. and use ES modules (which is a javascript-specific term) to organize them.