Group is a very lightweight layout manager. It doesn't support a lot of customizing options (for example, background color) and doesn't have any size control—Group's size is a combination of child sizes, and anything too large will be trimmed.
So, unless you need to have a huge amount of components and care a lot about performance, consider using another manager.
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