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Description
Quite often, our apps need to render a list of entities.
Entities usually contain some data and an identifier property like id
or key
.
Sometimes we may have some logic inside a component which uses that identifier, e.g. uses it inside some click
handler to fire an event with id
of the clicked entity.
Here is a simplified example:
var Entity = React.createClass({
notifyItem: function() {
fire('someEvent', { id: this.props.key });
},
render: function() {
return <div onClick={this.notifyItem} />;
}
});
We also find it natural to use these properties as a key
prop when rendering a list for a proper component recycling.
However, with 0.12 key
was moved out of props
, and it doesn't seem to be available inside a component at all, so now we have to specify two different props-like values, which looks redundant:
<Entity
key={...}
entityId={...} />
Would be great to make key
available inside a component once again in the future versions.