May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
7h 30m
English
Facebook and the React community encourage the use of composition over classical inheritance. It can be said that any other pattern to reuse code is considered anti-pattern in React. A lot more can be said about that, but React has been heavily used in production at Facebook without using inheritance for sure. In such a large-scale application, the advantage of building independent pieces and combining them to form a complex functionally is what made React so popular. Components can be moved around, organized by common functionality; they can be well tested and refactored without much of a risk of breaking other parts of the system.
Extending from the React.Component:
class Greeting extends React.Component ...
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