Using childrens in React Container - reactjs

Question

Can I use children in React Container or is it wrong?
For example, I have a list of buttons(ActionButton) that are grouped together (ActionMenu).
import React from 'react';
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<ActionMenu>
<ActionButton name="New" icon="add" />
<ActionButton name="Delete" icon="remove" />
</ActionMenu>
)
}
}
class ActionMenu extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
}
handleClick() {
alert('Click!');
}
render() {
return React.Children.map(this.props.children, (button) =>
React.cloneElement(button, {
onClick: this.handleClick
})
);
}
}
function ActionButton({ name, icon, onClick }) {
return <button class={icon} onClick={onClick}>{name}</button>
}

Answer 1

You can use children regardless of whether it's a component of container.
"[children are] especially common for components like Sidebar or Dialog that represent generic 'boxes'."
In your case you have a menu, which falls into this category.
https://reactjs.org/docs/composition-vs-inheritance.html

Answer 2

I think this is what you are after. Actually you should just put the children in its closest parent instead of its grandpa.
import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
function ActionButton({ name, handleClick }) {
return <button onClick={handleClick}>{name}</button>
}
class ActionMenu extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
}
handleClick = () => {
alert('Click!');
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<ActionButton name="add" handleClick={this.handleClick}/>
<ActionButton name="remove" handleClick={this.handleClick} />
</div>
);
}
}
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<ActionMenu />
)
}
}
render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
You can try to run it in sandbox.
By the way, using bind is quite redundant now, we can use public class fields syntax, which is already ECMA stage 2.