How props are passed to components in React

The blog post provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and mastering props in React, emphasizing their role in facilitating data exchange between components, similar to function arguments. It discusses essential concepts such as using props in function components, employing PropTypes and defaultProps for validation and default values, and tackling challenges like prop drilling, which involves passing props through multiple component layers unnecessarily. The article highlights that props are immutable, requiring the use of states for dynamic data that responds to user interactions and explains how React’s state and props together form the data model of an application. It also explores passing data from child to parent components via functions, the importance of avoiding deeply nested props restructuring, and the pitfalls of excessive prop validation. Additionally, the blog introduces the children prop, which allows components to render nested content, enhancing flexibility and reusability, and briefly covers advanced topics like render props for dynamic behavior.