Component here is just to illustrate that the type is of a view component, and due to it being implemented on top of React. `component()` is a factory/syntactic sugar on top of React allowing you to have referentially transparent components (as you get arguments passed to the render function).
In time, React hopefully (and probably) gets support for stateless functions without the syntactic sugar (https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%2...). This will be supported when React adds support for functions returning VDOM elements.
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Component here is just to illustrate that the type is of a view component, and due to it being implemented on top of React. `component()` is a factory/syntactic sugar on top of React allowing you to have referentially transparent components (as you get arguments passed to the render function).
In time, React hopefully (and probably) gets support for stateless functions without the syntactic sugar (https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%2...). This will be supported when React adds support for functions returning VDOM elements.