Comment by Vasan Subramanian on "Which is the best way to create a React component - React.createClass or ES6 plain class."

I had written my MERN tutorial using React.createClass and ES5. Later, I created an ES6 version, here's the github repo -- I've put in a good amount of comments within the source itself.

You could compare the two sets of sources and take your pick, but here's my take:

I liked the following in ES6 classes:

ES6 class feels more natural and the syntax is a little more compact
Lots of code out there I had to read was in ES6, it was easier to comprehend them, I didn't have to context-switch.

But I also did not like the following:

ES6 has no auto-binding, this is a pain. I kept slipping up and running into run-time errors due to this.
ES6 classes don't have static variables, things like defining contextTypes is a little convoluted.

Having said that, I'll probably stick to ES6 since that seems to be the future.

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