---
title: "How to Instantiate a React Component"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-instantiate-a-react-component-l0tpdpldd
source_url: https://medium.com/javarevisited/how-to-instantiate-a-react-component-c35c07527043
type: article
source: "Javarevisited"
author: "Mouad Oumous"
published: 2025-12-09T15:25:26.100Z
updated: 2025-12-10T12:00:10.822Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "react", "jsx"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Instantiate a React Component

**[Javarevisited](https://daily.dev/sources/javarevisited)** · [@mouadoumous](https://daily.dev/mouadoumous) · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

React components work similarly to JavaScript classes in terms of definition and instantiation. A component is defined once as a blueprint, then instantiated multiple times using JSX elements. Each JSX element creates a component instance, just like the 'new' keyword creates class instances. While the analogy helps understand component usage, JavaScript classes and React components are technically different concepts.

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