How to Dynamically Choose a Component to Render in React

When working on a menu that displays a list of items, each with its own icon, you may come across the need to dynamically choose which component to render based on certain conditions. In this blog post, we’ll explore different approaches to achieve this in React. Hardcoding Components in the Menu Initially, you might hardcode the components directly in the menu array. For example: const menu = [ { title: 'Home', icon: <HomeIcon className="mr-3 ml-1 h-5 w-5" /> }, { title: 'Notifications', icon: <BellIcon className="mr-3 ml-1 h-5 w-5" /> }, { title: 'Profile', icon: <UserIcon className="mr-3 ml-1 h-5 w-5" /> } ]; This approach works well if the components remain the same throughout the application....

Using React Portals for Better Component Rendering

Discover how React Portals can improve your component rendering process. React 16 introduced a powerful feature called Portals. With Portals, you can render an element outside of its component hierarchy, in a separate component. This means that even though the element is rendered elsewhere in the DOM tree, it is still managed by the React component hierarchy. To use React Portals, you can make use of the ReactDOM.createPortal() API, which takes two arguments: the element to render and the DOM element where it should be rendered....