Passing Data Between Components in React
For the last several years, React has been undoubtedly the leading UI library for building user interfaces. So much so that it inspired supporting libraries and frameworks of its own, such as Next.js to build full-stack applications, utilize server-side rendering, SSGs, and more. React is founded on several programming concepts. One of them is reusable components, that are essentially self-contained chunks of HTML, CSS, and dynamic JavaScript code to render a small part of the website. You can also think of components as bricks to build a house (a full web application). Building even remotely successful web application requires a thorough understanding of component trees. Communication between components is especially important, especially because some components might hold the data other components need. In this blog post, I want to explain props as a way to share data in component trees in React. Understanding Components in React Components are foundational feature to React. They h