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Component

Meaning in web development, with examples

/kəmˈpoʊnənt/nounCore term

In web development, component means: A reusable, self-contained piece of a user interface, such as a button, modal or product card, with its own markup, styles and logic.

In Turkish: bileşen, component

How it is used

Central to React, Vue, Angular and Svelte. Developers create, reuse, render and split components, pass data to them as props, and build component libraries or design systems.

Example sentences

  1. This page is too big; let's split it into smaller components.

  2. The Button component accepts a size prop: small, medium or large.

Common collocations

  • reusable component
  • UI component
  • component library
  • child component
  • render a component
  • frameworkA ready-made set of code, tools and rules for building applications, such as Angular, Vue, Next.js or Laravel, that shapes how a project is organized.
  • stateThe data an app or component holds at a given moment, such as whether a menu is open or what a user has typed, which controls what is shown.
  • renderTo turn code and data into what the user sees, either in the browser, which draws the page, or on the server, which builds the HTML.
  • libraryA collection of ready-made code that you add to a project and call when you need it, for example for dates, charts or animations.

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