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- [Accessing Env Vars In create-react-app](react/accessing-env-vars-in-create-react-app.md)
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- [Alter The Display Name Of A Component](react/alter-the-display-name-of-a-component.md)
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- [Building A React App In The Browser](react/building-a-react-app-in-the-browser.md)
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- [Create Dynamically Named Custom React Components](react/create-dynamically-named-custom-react-components.md)
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- [create-react-app Comes With Lodash](react/create-react-app-comes-with-lodash.md)
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- [Debug Jest Tests In create-react-app](react/debug-jest-tests-in-create-react-app.md)
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- [Defining State In A Simple Class Component](react/defining-state-in-a-simple-class-component.md)
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# Create Dynamically Named Custom React Components
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A React element is as simple as a function that returns some valid JSX. Any
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function will do.
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```javascript
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const CustomComponent = ({ children }) => {
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return (
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<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>
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);
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};
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```
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This function provides us with a React component that has a fixed name --
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`CustomComponent`. With the help of the [`displayName`
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property](https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#displayname), we can
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create dynamically named components.
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```javascript
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const ComponentGenerator = ({ customName, children }) => {
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const CustomComponent = ({ children }) => {
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return (
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<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>
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);
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};
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CustomComponent.displayName = customName;
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return (
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<CustomComponent>{children}</CustomComponent>
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);
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};
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const App = () => {
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return (
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<ComponentGenerator customName="RandomComponentName">
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Hello!
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</ComponentGenerator>
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);
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}
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```
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If we inspect the generated React tree, we will not see anything called
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`<CustomComponent>`, but instead we will see our `<RandomComponentName>`
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component.
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Remember, React components need to have an uppercase name.

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