React onClick function doesn't fire

I built this toy problem to replicate an issue I am facing in a larger app. Why does handleClick not fire when the button is clicked?

const Button = () => <button type="button">Click me</button>;

export const App = () => {

  const handleClick = () => {
    console.log("clicked");
  };

  return <Button onClick={handleClick} />;
};

>Solution :

You pass onClick={handleClick} as a property to Button but the Button component does not use the property.

const Button = () ... // ⚠️ no onClick property used

You can fix this by responding to the onClick property –

const Button = ({ onClick }) =>  // ✅
  <button type="button" onClick={onClick}> // ✅
    Click me
  </button>

An obvious improvement would be to respond to the children property as well. This allows the caller of Button to write anything in place of the static Click me –

const Button = ({ onClick, children }) =>
  <button type="button" onClick={onClick}>{children}</button>

<Button onClick={handleRegister}>Register</Button>
<Button onClick={handleLogin}>Login</Button>
<Button onClick={handleSave}>Save</Button>

Note children can be passed as a property. Sometimes you will see components use children in this way. Both examples function identically –

const Button = ({ onClick, children }) =>
  <button
    type="button"
    onClick={onClick}
    children={children}
  />

Another common thing for Button components like this is to automatically prevent the default event for the onClick handler. We can also accept a type property and set the default to "button" if the caller does not otherwise specify –

const Button = ({ type = "button", onClick, children, preventDefault = true }) =>
  <button
    type={type}
    onClick={e => {
      if (preventDefault) e.preventDefault()
      onClick(e)
    }}
    children={children}
  />

<Button type="submit" onClick={handleRegister}>Register</Button>
<Button onClick={handleReset} preventDefault={false} children="Reset" />