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== Why is this an issue?
React components describe an independent and reusable piece of UI. To define it one can declare a function (functional component) or a class (class component). When implementing a class component, a `render` method is required to return the DOM structure, typically with JSX syntax.
When writing the render method in a component it is easy to forget to return the JSX content, which means the component will render nothing. Thus having a `render` method without a single `return` statement is usually a mistake. If it's required that the component renders to nothing, the method should return `null`.
=== Noncompliant code example
[source,javascript]
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const React = require('react');
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
<div>Contents</div>;
}
}
----
=== Compliant solution
[source,javascript]
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const React = require('react');
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return <div>Contents</div>;
}
}
----
== Resources
* https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#render[render()] - React API Reference