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The Rules

Naming

React has built-in convention on how to name your components:

  • Capitalized — component names with first letter uppercase are treated as a React component (e.g. <Foo />);
  • Dot Notation — component names with a dot in the name, regardless of the case, are too treated as a React component (e.g. <foo.bar />, <Foo.Bar />, etc.) - But this is a bad idea, since this is also a syntax thing!
  • Lowercase — component names starting with lowercase letters are treated as DOM elements (e.g. <div>, <span>, etc.).

Return

A component can only return 1 element:

tip
return(
<div>
<h1>Hello</h1>
</div>
)
danger
return(
<div>
<h1>Hello</h1>
</div>
<h2>Howdy!</h2>
)
tip
import React from 'react'
...
return(
<React.Fragment>
<h1>Hello</h1>
</React.Fragment>
)
return(
<>
<h1>Hello</h1>
</>
)