What Are Stateful and Stateless Components?

Learn about stateful and stateless components in React Native.

Whether we’re completely new to the React world or have been here for a little while, we have probably heard the terms stateful and stateless components. These terms were especially useful before the introduction of hooks in ReactJS v16.8.

Stateful components

From a high-level perspective, ReactJS and React Native components are nothing more than JavaScript functions. The React library adds some specific features to those functions. One of those features is state, a special kind of component memory.

A React component that can accept state can look like this:

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