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Discussion on: React functional components: const vs. function

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Necmettin Sargın

My component was not showing up const MyComponent = () => {...} bc of this and its not gives error or something I searched what I'm doing wrong and finally saw that if u use { } u have to use return otherwise (...) . Thank you

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Dr. Derek Austin 🥳

That's a fantastic tip, and I've also been tripped up by that particular thing. You also sometimes need () around the JSX, though Prettier will add it for you. I wrote an article about this topic: javascript.plainenglish.io/how-to-...