Georg Unterholzner @georg.dev 路 Dec 5 My fellow web developers, where do you stand on this? When passing props from a parent to a child component/function, do you prefer: 1. Passing the object (reference) 2. Passing only the specific values needed?
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"It depends" But if I look at this example, I think I would prefer to pass the whole product. Potential complexity of the product definition aside, imo, it is intuitive to think about and generally more extensible.
Fair question. I'd say if the number of props is manageable (let's say less than 5), I prefer to pass them individually to get a better idea of the actual data requirements and what the component might render without needing to dig through the implementation
I tend to use 2. If there are common objects that need to be passed around I would rather rely on the child component to use a custom hook to get it itself. In this case all I need to pass down is the ID. TanstackQuery will make sure I don't fetch stuff twice.