Avoiding Wrapper Divs in ReactJs

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post on how you can avoid wrapper divs in ReactJs. It’s particularly useful when populating tables or creating parts of a larger component. Instead of the following:

return (
  <div>
    <td>Frogs</td>
    <td>Turtles</td>
  </div>
);

You can use fragments:

import React, { Fragment } from 'react'
...
return (
  
    <td>Frogs</td>
    <td>Turtles</td>
  
);

The fragment won’t polute the dom and mean that you don’t need to add any additional styling. Check out these links for more info:
https://reactjs.org/docs/fragments.html
https://stackoverflow.com/a/49375945/522859
https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/11/28/react-v16.2.0-fragment-support.html