Modern front-end frameworks like React promote building apps using custom components — and for good reason. Custom components provide powerful advantages that improve code quality, scalability, and development speed.
✅1. Reusability
You can reuse the same component multiple times across the app with different data (props/inputs), which saves code repetition.
🔒2. Encapsulation
Custom components encapsulate their own logic, structure, and styling — preventing conflicts with other parts of the app.
🧠3. Separation of Concerns
Each component handles one specific part of your UI or logic, making it easier to manage and test.
🛠️4. Maintainability
If you need to make a UI or logic change, you only update the component in one place instead of all over the codebase.
🧼5. Cleaner Code Structure
Breaking your UI into small, logical components makes your app easier to read, understand, and debug.
🔤6. Custom Component File Naming
In React, if a component starts with a capital letter, it's treated as a custom component.
If it starts with a lowercase letter, React assumes it’s a built-in HTML tag.
Example:->Creating and Using a Custom Button in React
1. Custom Button Component
import React from 'react';
const CustomButton = ({ label, onClick, type = 'button', className = '' }) => {
return (
{label}
);
};
export default CustomButton;
2. Using the Custom Component in App
import React from 'react';
import CustomButton from './CustomButton';
const App = () => {
const handleClick = () => {
alert('Button Clicked!');
};
return (
Welcome to My App
console.log('Cancelled')}
className="secondary"
/>
);
};
export default App;