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Philip Kroupoderov
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,641 PointsWe did not define those properties
Guil showed, that our Courses component was getting some objects assigned to its props, such as match, location, history. But we did not define those props in our Courses component, so is the Route component defining those new props (match, location, history) in the Courses component when it get's rendered??
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Randy Layne
Treehouse Project ReviewerHi Phil-
You are exactly correct. Many dependencies like react-router create their own custom props that we can tap into as developers and use, with props.match and props.history being perfect examples. Using the Chrome React extension to see what a given components props are is a great way to explore what information you are able to tap into from these third-party components. Note how in order for these props to get passed down to the Courses component automatically, you need to use the component={Courses} and not a render=. To use this with a render call we would need to pass the props to it manually with something like render= { props => <Courses match = props.match />}