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Artemij Fedosejev
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Artemij Fedosejev

Artemij Fedosejev is a technical lead living in London, United Kingdom. He is a self-taught web developer who has been a web developer since the early 2000s. Artemij earned his BSc in computer science from University College Cork, Ireland. He participated in the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, where he built and launched a website that received the Most Innovative Project award. Artemij has played a key role in creating frontend architecture using React.js and Flux for various websites. Artemij created a number of open source projects, including Snapkite Engine, Snapkite Stream Client, and other projects.
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Validating React component properties


In React, there is a way to validate the component properties using the component's propTypes object:

propTypes: {
  propertyName: validator
}

In this object, you need to specify a property name and a validator function that will determine whether a property is valid or not. React provides some predefined validators for you to reuse. They are all available in the React.PropTypes object:

  • React.PropTypes.number: This will validate whether a property is a number or not

  • React.PropTypes.string: This will validate whether a property is a string or not

  • React.PropTypes.bool: This will validate whether a property is a Boolean or not

  • React.PropTypes.object: This will validate whether a property is an object or not

  • React.PropTypes.element: This will validate whether a property is a React element or not

For a complete list of the React.PropTypes validators, you can check the docs at https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/reusable-components.html#prop-validation.

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Artemij Fedosejev is a technical lead living in London, United Kingdom. He is a self-taught web developer who has been a web developer since the early 2000s. Artemij earned his BSc in computer science from University College Cork, Ireland. He participated in the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, where he built and launched a website that received the Most Innovative Project award. Artemij has played a key role in creating frontend architecture using React.js and Flux for various websites. Artemij created a number of open source projects, including Snapkite Engine, Snapkite Stream Client, and other projects.
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