React Component Instantiation

Next, I’ll briefly explain JavaScript classes, to help clarify React components. Technically they are not related, but it is a fitting analogy for you to understand the concept of a component.

Classes are most often used in object-oriented programming languages. JavaScript, always flexible in its programming paradigms, allows functional programming and object-oriented programming to co-exist side-by-side. To recap JavaScript classes for object-oriented programming, consider the following Developer class: