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Beginning React

You're reading from   Beginning React Simplify your frontend development workflow and enhance the user experience of your applications with React

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789530520
Pages 96 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Composing Components


When defining React components, we can use them as the children of another component by using that component as a React element. We already saw this when we included the Catalog component inside of the App component, but let's analyze this composition further.

Combining Components

We will now see how to combine components in order to create new, complex components:

  1. Open the src/ProductList.js file in the my-shop-03 folder
  2. Follow the text until the end of the section

Let's consider the following component:

import React from 'react';
class ProductList extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <ul>
      <li>
        <h3>Traditional Merlot</h3>
        <p>A bottle of middle weight wine, lower in tannins (smoother), 
           with a more red-fruited flavor profile.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <h3>Classic Chianti</h3>
        <p>A medium-bodied wine characterized by a marvelous freshness with 
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