Dart is an object-oriented language with classes and mixin-based inheritance. Every object is an instance of a class, and all classes descend from Object. Mixin-based inheritance means that although every class (except for Object) has exactly one superclass, a class body can be reused in multiple class hierarchies. Extension methods are a way to add functionality to a class without changing the class or creating a subclass.
Dart is a true object-oriented language, so even functions are objects and have a type, Function. This means that functions can be assigned to variables or passed as arguments to other functions. You can also call an instance of a Dart class as if it were a function. For details, see Callable classes.
If you look at the API documentation for the basic array type, List, you’ll see that the type is actually List<E>. The <…> notation marks List as a generic (or parameterized) type—a type that has formal type parameters. By convention, most type variables have single-letter names, such as E, T, S, K, and V.
mapstructure is a Go library for decoding generic map values to structures and vice versa, while providing helpful error handling.
This library is most useful when decoding values from some data stream (JSON, Gob, etc.) where you don’t quite know the structure of the underlying data until you read a part of it. You can therefore read a map[string]interface{} and use this library to decode it into the proper underlying native Go structure.
It is called JSX, and it is a syntax extension to JavaScript. We recommend using it with React to describe what the UI should look like. JSX may remind you of a template language, but it comes with the full power of JavaScript.
Conceptually, components are like JavaScript functions. They accept arbitrary inputs (called “props”) and return React elements describing what should appear on the screen.
Function and Class Components
The simplest way to define a component is to write a JavaScript function:
This function is a valid React component because it accepts a single “props” (which stands for properties) object argument with data and returns a React element. We call such components “function components” because they are literally JavaScript functions.
The above two components are equivalent from React’s point of view.
Rendering a Component
Previously, we only encountered React elements that represent DOM tags:
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const element = <div />;
However, elements can also represent user-defined components:
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const element = <Welcomename="Sara" />;
When React sees an element representing a user-defined component, it passes JSX attributes and children to this component as a single object. We call this object “props”.
For example, this code renders “Hello, Sara” on the page:
Components can refer to other components in their output. This lets us use the same component abstraction for any level of detail. A button, a form, a dialog, a screen: in React apps, all those are commonly expressed as components.
For example, we can create an App component that renders Welcome many times:
Typically, new React apps have a single App component at the very top. However, if you integrate React into an existing app, you might start bottom-up with a small component like Button and gradually work your way to the top of the view hierarchy.
Extracting Components
Don’t be afraid to split components into smaller components.
It accepts author (an object), text (a string), and date (a date) as props, and describes a comment on a social media website.
This component can be tricky to change because of all the nesting, and it is also hard to reuse individual parts of it. Let’s extract a few components from it.
The Avatar doesn’t need to know that it is being rendered inside a Comment. This is why we have given its prop a more generic name: user rather than author.
We recommend naming props from the component’s own point of view rather than the context in which it is being used.
Extracting components might seem like grunt work at first, but having a palette of reusable components pays off in larger apps. A good rule of thumb is that if a part of your UI is used several times (Button, Panel, Avatar), or is complex enough on its own (App, FeedStory, Comment), it is a good candidate to be extracted to a separate component.
Props are Read-Only
Whether you declare a component as a function or a class, it must never modify its own props. Consider this sum function:
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functionsum(a, b) { return a + b; }
Such functions are called “pure” because they do not attempt to change their inputs, and always return the same result for the same inputs.
In contrast, this function is impure because it changes its own input: