Render props

Imagine implementing a feature that is composed of several smaller components, like what you’ve been working on in this chapter. The MyFeature component depends on ArticleList and AddArticle. Now, imagine using MyFeature in different parts of your application where it makes sense to use a different implementation of ArticleList or AddArticle. The fundamental challenge is substituting one component for another.

Render props are a nice way to address this challenge. The idea is that you pass a property to your component whose value is a function that returns a component to render. This way, instead of having the feature component directly depend on its child components, you can configure them as you like; they pass them in as render prop values. Let’s look at an example. Instead of having MyFeature directly depend on AddArticle and ArticleList, you can pass them as render props. Here’s what the MyFeature looks like when it’s using render...