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Exactly, which is the entire reason the array pattern exists, and yet the article forgets to mention that entirely.

Still sounds like a component?

You're arguing for more abstraction. The article is arguing for less. You're going in the opposite direction.

No, not really. I'm arguing for putting a list of static html tags in a component instead of generating html from a static data structure.

If that component is not going to be reused anywhere or tested in isolation, absolutely inline it.