What is state and stateless in React?

Stateful and Stateless Components In React, a stateful component is a component that holds some state. Stateless components, by contrast, have no state. Note that both types of components can use props. In the example, there are two React components.

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While both hold information that influences the output of render, they are different in one important way: props get passed to the component (similar to function parameters) whereas state is managed within the component (similar to variables declared within a function).

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