February 11, 2023

Passing props to props.children in a React functional component

Passing props to props.children in a React functional component is a way of passing data down to multiple child components at once. The props.children property is a reference to the child elements that are contained within the component's JSX tag.

Here's an example of how to pass props to props.children in a functional component:

import React from 'react';

const ChildComponent = (props) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h2>{props.title}</h2>
      <p>{props.description}</p>
    </div>
  );
};

const ParentComponent = (props) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{props.parentTitle}</h1>
      {React.Children.map(props.children, child => {
        return React.cloneElement(child, {
          title: props.title,
          description: props.description,
        });
      })}
    </div>
  );
};

const GrandParentComponent = () => {
  return (
    <ParentComponent parentTitle="My Parent Title" title="My Title" description="My Description">
      <ChildComponent />
      <ChildComponent />
      <ChildComponent />
    </ParentComponent>
  );
};

export default GrandParentComponent;

In this example, the GrandParentComponent functional component is rendering the ParentComponent, and passing two props, parentTitle, title, and description, to the parent component. The parent component then uses the React.Children.map method to loop through its children, and the React.cloneElement method to create a new instance of each child component, passing the title and description props to each one. The child components receive the props and use them to render the title and description.