JSX and styling

JSX is the syntax extension for JavaScript. It is not mandatory to use JSX with React, but there are some benefits that make development easier. JSX, for example, prevents injection attacks because all values are escaped in the JSX before they are rendered. The most useful feature is that you can embed JavaScript expressions in the JSX by wrapping it with curly brackets; this technique will be used a lot in the following chapters.

In the following example, we can access the component props when using JSX. Component props are covered in the next section:

function App() {
  return <h1>Hello World {props.user}</h1>;
}

You can also pass a JavaScript expression as props, as shown in the following code snippet:

<Hello count={2+2} />

JSX is compiled into regular JavaScript by Babel.

You can use both internal and external styling with React JSX elements. Here are two examples of inline styling. This first one defines the style inside...