Discussion on "Demystifying Higher-Order Components (HOCs)"

Joseph Aje · 2019-07-27T14:43:36.470Z

The term, ‘Higher-Order components’(usually abbreviated as ‘HOCs’) gets tossed around a lot, and people often tend to misunderstand it. In fact, a good number of React developers don’t exactly know what HOCs are or how they work. And that’s okay. Eve...

I've been wondering what a higher order component is, thanks for taking the time to break it down into an easily digestible format!

Always a pleasure to help!

Nice Read, Thank You!

How do you see HOC will be used by developer with react-hook in picture?

Hi Tapas. With the React Hooks API, the code reuse and optimization I highlighted can be achieved easily, and in most scenarios, more gracefully than with HOCs. HOCs are just one way to do it. At the end of the day, it all boils down to preference.

A detailed comparison is available here: medium.com/@albertchu539/higher-order-components-…

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 !

Great to see this was helpful. You're welcome!

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