---
title: "The mystery of React Element, children, parents and re-renders"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-mystery-of-react-element-children-parents-and-re-renders--vnnzm3fg
source_url: https://www.developerway.com/posts/react-elements-children-parents
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
author: "Nadia Makarevich"
published: 2022-08-26T06:28:05.208Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["react"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 16
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# The mystery of React Element, children, parents and re-renders

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@adevnadia](https://daily.dev/adevnadia) · 10 min read · 16 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The pattern itself goes like this: imagine you have some frequent state changes in a component. If the ChildComponent is heavy, its frequent re-renders can cause performance problems for your app. The way to fight this, other than React, is to extract ChildComponent outside and pass it as children. The fancy “composition” pattern that we use is nothing more than a syntax sugar.

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