You can't access the children of your component through this.props.children. this.props.children designates the children being passed onto

setState void setState( function|object nextState, [function callback] )

React.isValidElement boolean isValidElement(* object) Verifies

It's a common pattern in React to wrap a component in an abstraction. The outer component exposes a simple property to do something that might have more complex implementation

shallowCompare is a helper function to achieve the same functionality as PureRenderMixin while using ES6 classes with React. If

isMounted boolean isMounted() isMounted()

React React is the entry point to the React library. If you're using one of the prebuilt packages it's available

Trying to compare and contrast React with WebComponents inevitably results in specious conclusions, because the two libraries are built to solve different problems. WebComponents

Currently, in a component's render, you can only return one node; if you have, say, a list of divs to return, you must wrap your components within

displayName string displayName The displayName