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Exporting React components

Exporting React components

In this lesson, you'll learn how to export a React component and then reuse it in a different part of your application. This is a fundamental concept in building reusable and maintainable React applications. I will start where I left off in the previous session. At the moment, we have an App component, which we defined inside the main.jsx file. To keep our project organized, we will move this component to a separate file called app.jsx. Let's create the app.jsx file inside the src folder. Currently, the app.jsx file is empty. Let's define an App component just like we did inside the main.jsx file. Let's add the actual content to the app component. Here I'm returning a simple H1 tag. To make this component reusable, I need to export it using Export Default. This line makes the app component accessible from other parts of the application. Using Export Default is common practice to define a single named export from your component file. Now it is time to update main.jsx. Let's remove the…

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