freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/03-front-end-development-libraries/react/create-a-component-with-composition.md

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--description--

Now we will look at how we can compose multiple React components together. Imagine you are building an app and have created three components: a Navbar, Dashboard, and Footer.

To compose these components together, you could create an App parent component which renders each of these three components as children. To render a component as a child in a React component, you include the component name written as a custom HTML tag in the JSX. For example, in the render method you could write:

return (
 <App>
  <Navbar />
  <Dashboard />
  <Footer />
 </App>
)

When React encounters a custom HTML tag that references another component (a component name wrapped in < /> like in this example), it renders the markup for that component in the location of the tag. This should illustrate the parent/child relationship between the App component and the Navbar, Dashboard, and Footer.

--instructions--

In the code editor, there is a simple functional component called ChildComponent and a class component called ParentComponent. Compose the two together by rendering the ChildComponent within the ParentComponent. Make sure to close the ChildComponent tag with a forward slash.

Note: ChildComponent is defined with an ES6 arrow function because this is a very common practice when using React. However, know that this is just a function. If you aren't familiar with the arrow function syntax, please refer to the JavaScript section.

--hints--

The React component should return a single div element.

assert(
  (function () {
    var shallowRender = Enzyme.shallow(React.createElement(ParentComponent));
    return shallowRender.type() === 'div';
  })()
);

The component should return two nested elements.

assert(
  (function () {
    var shallowRender = Enzyme.shallow(React.createElement(ParentComponent));
    return shallowRender.children().length === 2;
  })()
);

The component should return the ChildComponent as its second child.

assert(
  (function () {
    const mockedComponent = Enzyme.mount(React.createElement(ParentComponent));
    return (
      mockedComponent.find('ParentComponent').find('ChildComponent').length ===
      1
    );
  })()
);

--seed--

--after-user-code--

ReactDOM.render(<ParentComponent />, document.getElementById('root'))

--seed-contents--

const ChildComponent = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <p>I am the child</p>
    </div>
  );
};

class ParentComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>I am the parent</h1>
        { /* Change code below this line */ }


        { /* Change code above this line */ }
      </div>
    );
  }
};

--solutions--

const ChildComponent = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <p>I am the child</p>
    </div>
  );
};

class ParentComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>I am the parent</h1>
        { /* Change code below this line */ }
        <ChildComponent />
        { /* Change code above this line */ }
      </div>
    );
  }
};