Understanding React Render Props by Example

Build a React component step-by-step using render props to understand how to implement the pattern

Trey Huffine
Level Up Coding
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5 min readMar 26, 2018

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In this tutorial we will cover the concepts needed to build your own components using render props. We will implement a component with render props to save React state to localStorage, called <Storage/>, that will allow you to inject the functionality into components without needing to duplicate the logic across your entire application.

If you’re interested in seeing the same example as a higher order component, check out this article

An introduction to render props

The render props pattern is a way to share functionality between components without repeating code. The official React docs define it as —

The term “render prop” refers to a simple technique for sharing code between React components using a prop whose value is a function.

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