Master these five concepts to master React

Components and &quot;higher-order component factory function&quot;. Waiting for &quot;factory factories&quot; and an iteration of Spring in Javascript.<p>I&#x27;m being a bit snide here since the Java community had to endure years of <i>uninformed</i> ridicule regarding the meta gymanstics required for component oriented programming.<p>I remember talking to a react or backbone (or whatever, it was the current &#x27;thing&#x27;) developer 1.5 years ago and giving a brief history of GUI toolkit frameworks before browsers. I swear, his eyes lit up like I was spilling occult secrets. Back to the future, par per course in this forgetful field.<p>[p.s. it&#x27;s not just the browser side people. Many years ago I mentioned in a Go community group to take a look at the Servlet architecture (circa ~2000) and its minimal but powerful abstractions. I think it was yesterday that we had people cheering &quot;context&quot; in Go 1.8.]

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Smart and dumb components are one of the reasons why I quickly jumped ship to Vue. It&#x27;s too complicated and the starter apps make it worse. You get four level deep directory structures where each dir contains a single file of like five lines. It feels like knitting a castle.<p>Vue certainly has its own cruft, but it&#x27;s at least somewhat simpler when it comes to how components compose.

Subjective content opinions aside, this article is short and to the point. Well written.

These and 3rd party integration, I think.<p>HOC aren&#x27;t to bad to know either, if you want to end up with maintainable code.<p>shameless plug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kay-is&#x2F;react-from-zero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kay-is&#x2F;react-from-zero</a>

Would you put &quot;filling in the rest of the stack&quot; as another finger of death? There doesn&#x27;t seem to be good consensus on that bit.

React best practises question - At what level should event handlers be installed? At lowest level components or the highest level?<p>How are events in React supposed to be propagated from low level components to their parent components when the low level components should not have any knowledge of their parents?

Good article besides the nonsense about some of the react lifecycles being voodoo. You will use it if you program extensively.

&gt; the component approach means that both HTML and JavaScript code live in the same file.<p>Something about this makes me want to facepalm and wonder why we bothered with separation of concerns, when React just undoes all of that.