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Published inApr 2016
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ISBN-139781785289644
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Vipul A M
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Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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Modifying this.props.children


"Shawn. There is one special prop that we should know about. It's this.props.children," continued Mike.

"React captures all the children that are present in the opening and closing tag into props that can be accessed through this.props.children." said Mike.

"Let's try to modify our code to use this.props.children. This is also required as we want to display a header for our output table." Mike added.

var RecentChangesTable = React.createClass({
  render: function(){
          return(
          <div>
            <h1> Recent Changes </h1>
            <table className='table'>
               {this.props.children}
            </table>
          </div>
          );
  }
});

var App = React.createClass({
  render: function(){
    return(<RecentChangesTable>
             <Headings headings = {this.props.headings} />
             <Rows changeSets = {this.props.changeSets} />
           </RecentChangesTable>);...
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Vipul A M

Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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