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R. Vait
R. Vait

Reputation: 958

React.js How to render component inside component?

I am stuck. I have several seperate components on seperate files. If I render them in main.jsx like following: 

ReactDOM.render(<LandingPageBox/>, document.getElementById("page-landing")); 
ReactDOM.render(<TopPlayerBox topPlayersData={topPlayersData}/>, document.getElementById("wrapper profile-data-wrapper"));
ReactDOM.render(<RecentGamesBox recentGamesData={recentGamesData}/>, document.getElementById("history wrapper"));

Everything works fine, but I wonder if it is a good practice? Maybe it is possible to do something like there would be only one ReactDom.render like: 

ReactDOM.render(<LandingPageBox recentGamesData={recentGamesData} topPlayersData={topPlayersData}/>, document.getElementById("page-landing"));

I tried different kinds of variatons of LandingPageBox to somehow include those other two components, but had no luck. They sometimes rendered outside the page and so on. I thought it should look something like this:

import React from 'react';
import RecentGames from '../RecentGames/RecentGames.jsx';
import TopPlayers from '../TopPlayers/TopPlayers.jsx';
import PageTop from './PageTop.jsx';
import PageBottom from './PageBottom.jsx';

class LandingPageBox extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <body className="page-landing">
                <PageTop>
                     <TopPlayers topPlayersData={this.props.topPlayersData} />
                </PageTop>
                <PageBottom>
                        <RecentGames recentGamesData=    {this.props.recentGamesData}/>
                    </PageBottom>              
                </body>
            );
        }
    }

export default LandingPageBox;

But this code only renders PageTop and PageBottom, without player or game components.

So my question would be, how to set up LandingPageBox file so that TopPlayers component would render inside PageTop component and RecentGames component would render inside PageBottom component? Thank you.

Upvotes: 38

Views: 150699

Answers (3)

santosh sutar
santosh sutar

Reputation: 156

Here Car component is inside the another component i.e Garage components. When Garage component in rendering Car component is also renders. Same concept as like one function inside another function.

class Car extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <h2>I am a Car!</h2>;
  }
}

class Garage extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
      <h1>Who lives in my Garage?</h1>
      <Car />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<Garage />, document.getElementById('root'));

Upvotes: 2

Nicole
Nicole

Reputation: 1707

In your example

return (
        <body className="page-landing">
            <PageTop>
                 <TopPlayers topPlayersData={this.props.topPlayersData} />
            </PageTop>
            <PageBottom>
                 <RecentGames recentGamesData=    {this.props.recentGamesData}/>
            </PageBottom>              
        </body>
       );

React will only render the top-level custom components PageTop and PageBottom, as you already found out. The other components (TopPlayers and RecentGames) are nested within those components. What does that mean? React does not just display those nested components because it would not know how to do this. Instead, all rendering must be done by the outer components PageTop and PageBottom. React just passes the nested components to them (PageTop gets TopPlayers, PageBottom gets RecentGames) in this.props.children. Now it is up to the outer components what to do with these nested components. In your example, you would modify the PageTop and PageBottom components to use {this.props.children} to display their nested components in a suitable way.

Upvotes: 56

Dmitriy Nevzorov
Dmitriy Nevzorov

Reputation: 6078

You are right. You can use as many nested components as you want. It's one of the main concepts in react. You can access them in this.props.children. Do it like this: 

var Parent = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return <div>{this.props.children}</div>;
  }
});

ReactDOM.render(
  <Parent>
    <Child/>
    <Child/>
  </Parent>,
  node
);

Read more here - https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/multiple-components.html

And here - http://buildwithreact.com/article/component-children

Upvotes: 45

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