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Andrea Chiarelli
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Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he has been involved in: from C# to JavaScript, from Angular to React, from ASP.NET to PhoneGap/Cordova. He has contributed to many online and offline magazines and has been the author of a few books published by Wrox Press and Packt. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, Inc. and a regular contributor to HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies. You can follow him on Twitter at @andychiare.
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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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Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he has been involved in: from C# to JavaScript, from Angular to React, from ASP.NET to PhoneGap/Cordova. He has contributed to many online and offline magazines and has been the author of a few books published by Wrox Press and Packt. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, Inc. and a regular contributor to HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies. You can follow him on Twitter at @andychiare.
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