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JavaScript

Posted by Kevin Schaffter
Kevin Schaffter
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React Component question

I was just wondering why some components such as "Home" have "extends Component" and a "render" call while others do not. This is for the React Router course.

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Mark Jones
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Mark Jones
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Mark Jones
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Mark Jones
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Some components are stateless functional components that don't do any kind of state-keeping or processing. They just take in props and display. Therefore they don't need a constructor. They are basically just functions and don't need to extend anything from the Component class.