React - syntax confusion to clarify

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I appreciate your help in getting me out of the mess i get into. I am very new to REACT and obviously tripping on some basic concepts.. Appreciate your kind help.

This is my app.js:

import React from "react";
import TodoItem from "./components/TodoItem";
import todosData from "./components/todosData"

function App() {

  const todoComponents = todosData.map((todo) => (
    <TodoItem  key={todo.id} todo={todo.text} />
  ));
  console.log(todoComponents);

    return(
        <div className="todo-list">
          
            <todoComponents />,
          
        </div>
    )
}
export default App;

todoData.js:

const todosData = [{
        id: "1",
        text: "Take out the trash",
        completed: true,
    },
    {
        id: "2",
        text: "Grocery Shopping",
        completed: false,
    },
    {
        id: "3",
        text: "Clean Garage",
        completed: false,
    },
    {
        id: "4",
        text: "Mow Lawn",
        completed: false,
    },
    {
        id: "5",
        text: "Catch up on courses",
        completed: false,
    },
];
export default todosData;

Error screen with 'todoComponents' starting with lowercase 't'. Next screen will show errors when using uppercase T instead.

ref1

app.js:

import React from "react";
import TodoItem from "./components/TodoItem";
import todosData from "./components/todosData"

function App() {

  const TodoComponents = todosData.map((todo) => (
    <TodoItem  key={todo.id} todo={todo.text} />
  ));
    
  console.log(TodoComponents);

    return(
        <div className="todo-list">
          
            <TodoComponents />,
          
        </div>
    )
}
export default App;

Error screen 2

ref2

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2 Answers
user_137941270

The short answer: your variable, todoComponents is an array of components. This does not make it a JSX component -- it is simply an array of JSX components.

JSX Components are either class-based, extending React.Component or React.PureComponent or they are a function that outputs JSX. The two examples of which are

class CustomComponent1 extends React.Component {
  render() { return "I am a component"; }
}

function CustomComponent2 () { 
  return "I am a second component";
}

Both of these may be called, either in their own files or in other JSX files, like so.

<CustomComponent1/>
<CustomComponent2/>

However, the following could not be called as a component

const SomeArray = ['hello','there'];

// Wrong
<SomeArray/>
// Right
<div>{SomeArray}</div>

The tl;dr of this lesson is that in React, unless it's a React Component (i.e. extended from one of the previous mentioned classes) or a functional component (a function that returns JSX) then it is not a component, and cannot be used like <CustomComponent/>.

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