How to render React Child Components from a function call?

Question

I'm trying to call a function, rows(), in my App component, which will render PhoneBook child components:

import React from 'react';
import PhoneBook from './components/PhoneBook';

const App = () => {
  const rows = () => {
    personsToShow.map(person => 
      <PhoneBook key={personsToShow.length+1} name={person.name} number={person.number}/>
    );
  }

  return (     
    <div>
      {rows()}
    </div>
  )
}

Where personsToShow is an array consisting of:

0: {name: "Arto Hellas", number: "000-000-0000"}
1: {name: "Ada Lovelace", number: "39-44-5323523"}
2: {name: "Dan Abramov", number: "12-43-234345"}
3: {name: "Mary Poppendieck", number: "39-23-6423122"}

The PhoneBook child component is defined as:

import React from 'react';

const PhoneBook = ({name, number}) => {
    return (
        <div>{name} {number}</div>
    );
}

export default PhoneBook;

How come the PhoneBook child components do not get rendered?

Answer 1

I think you just forgot to return from your function,

const rows = () => {
  //return here
  return personsToShow.map(person => 
    <PhoneBook key={person.number} name={person.name} number={person.number}/>
  );
}  

Demo

Note: You should provide the unique key. Your key is not unique here, you can use number (mostly unique) for your key as key={person.number}.