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Aurooba and Brian complete their accordion in React.js as part of their series on building an accordion block. They discuss how components are loaded into the Dom, binding a value to the className attribute, and thoughts on prop drilling. The episode ends with a preview of the rest of Season One and thoughts on viewSource Season Two.

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- Code from this episode - https://github.com/viewSourcePodcast/viewSource-blocks/tree/episode/accordion-content-on-page
- Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
- Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com

00:00 Introduction
03:16 Previous code recap
06:54 Adding a key for looping elements
07:54 Components are not HTML elements
09:50 className
13:02 Doing expressions inside attributes
15:03 Adding CSS to our component
16:53 Prop drilling
19:10 useContext vs Prop Drilling
22:27 Attempting to remove a component 
27:08 Next Steps for viewSource and Season 2