Dynamically rendering react components - facebook

Question

I'm new to reactjs and I'm having a hell of a time understanding this bug.
I've read this, and it seems like the solution is there but I'm drawing a blank on how to implement this correctly:
https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html#user-defined-components-must-be-capitalized
I am trying to render components based on classNames of clicked elements. The classNames match to component names. When I click an element it calls a function that sets the state of my app to that elements className. I then render the component based on the new state.
When testing, if I place the component directly into my app (not rendering the component name dynamically), it works just fine. But when i render the component name dynamically react thinks it's a built-in DOM element and doesn't render properly at all.
In this image you can see both components, rendered next to each other:
both components, first directly added, and the second with the name rendered dynamically
here is my app component code that is rendering everything:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import logo from '../logo.svg';
import '../css/App.css';
import menus from '../menus';
import MainNav from './MainNav';
import Products from './Products';
import Demos from './Demos';
import Industry from './Industry';
import Customers from './Customers';
import Trials from './Trials';
import Contact from './Contact';
import Newsroom from './Newsroom';
import About from './About';
import Home from './Home';
class App extends Component {
constructor() {
super();
this.chooseComponent = this.chooseComponent.bind(this);
this.state = {
allMenus: menus,
componentMenu: menus,
//sets initial component to load, changes on each click to the clicked component
clickedComponent: Home
};
}
chooseComponent(event) {
//save the classname of the menu i click
var clickedComp = event.target.className;
//saves a reference to a json object for later use
var menu = menus[clickedComp];
//adds those two vars to the state
this.setState({
componentMenu: menu,
clickedComponent: clickedComp
});
}
render() {
//saves a var for rendering the currently clicked component
var ActiveComponent = this.state.clickedComponent;
return (
<div className="App">
<MainNav choose={this.chooseComponent}/>
//renders the components directly without issue
<Products menuData={this.state.componentMenu} />
//renders the component dynamically with problems
<ActiveComponent menuData={this.state.componentMenu} />
</div>
);
}
}
export default App;
here is and example of one of my component being rendered in the App that's giving problems:
import React from 'react';
import products from '../products';
import ProductsMenu from './ProductsMenu';
import Platform from './Platform';
import Applications from './Applications';
import ExMachina from './ExMachina';
import ProductsHome from './ProductsHome';
import Submenu from './Submenu';
import menus from '../menus';
class Products extends React.Component {
constructor() {
super();
this.showContent=this.showContent.bind(this);
this.state = {
productsOverview: products,
content: <ProductsHome />
}
}
render(props) {
return (
<div className="content">
{this.state.content}
</div>
);
}
}
export default Products;