Excellent breakdown! I've been using HOC's like connect and withStyles (Material-UI) for a bit now but didn't exactly know how they worked until now. Thank you Joseph Aje !

Thanks for making this post, very easy to follow and understand! Learned something new today! haha thanks

Probably finally starting to understand the basics of how JSON Web Tokens actually work and starting to mess with request headers in api requests. (I'm used to traditional, third-party api GET requests but not changing the headers in the request / accept, content-type, authorization, etc) Slowly but surely =]