About props and State when using react.backbone

[walnutpedia]

I read some articles on React Props and State and get confused about that.
props should not be modified if I didn't misunderstand props and state...
when using react.backbone, the model was passing in a component via props, and the model definitely will change, right? is that proper to update the component this way?
sorry if this question is too silly...

[markijbema]

The props don't change, but their contents can change. So you pass a user. The user doesn't change, but his avatar_url might. In general the philosophy of backbone is a bit different from the philosophy of react, so in 'pure' react you indeed wouldn't do this, but pass in only a dumb object (like model.attributes)

[walnutpedia]

@markijbema thanks for your comment. one interesting thing that i've found is that another plugin called backbone-react-component seems use the state to hold the model data. so maybe that's just two different ways. anyhow, they both work.

[alvesl]

+1 this confused me too. Thanks for clarifying - maybe add this quick explanation to README?

Thanks!

[markijbema]

Good idea; could you make a pull-request on the readme?