Polymorphic Components
Explore how to create polymorphic React components using TypeScript that can render as various HTML elements while maintaining consistent props and behaviors. Understand the use of generic types and ComponentPropsWithRef to achieve adaptable and type-safe component wrappers like Box, enhancing code reusability and semantic structure.
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A polymorphic component is designed to be rendered as different HTML elements or components while maintaining the same properties and behaviors. It allows us to specify a prop to determine its rendered element type.
Creating the Box component
Earlier, we told you that, over the course of building out a large application, we tend to end up making a few wrappers around components. Box is the first wrapper around the basic block elements in HTML (such as <div>, <aside>, <section>, <article>, <main>, <head>, and so on). But just as we don’t want to lose all the semantic meaning we get from these tags, we also don’t ...