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0 pointsdanabramov8y ago0 comments

Yes and in fact it is right in our docs.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/composition-vs-inherit...

>So What About Inheritance?

>At Facebook, we use React in thousands of components, and we haven't found any use cases where we would recommend creating component inheritance hierarchies.

We dislike inheritance as much as you do, but we also dislike ad hoc class systems that have worse performance.

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EugeneOZ8y ago

Example with "extends" is also in your docs (exactly by link of this post), so I'm not sure what it proves.

seattle_spring8y ago

That's extending the base react component class, not an existing component class.

EugeneOZ8y ago

Well, if you think there's a difference then we never agree :)

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0 pointsdanabramov8y ago0 comments

Yes and in fact it is right in our docs.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/composition-vs-inherit...

>So What About Inheritance?

>At Facebook, we use React in thousands of components, and we haven't found any use cases where we would recommend creating component inheritance hierarchies.

We dislike inheritance as much as you do, but we also dislike ad hoc class systems that have worse performance.

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EugeneOZ8y ago

Example with "extends" is also in your docs (exactly by link of this post), so I'm not sure what it proves.

seattle_spring8y ago

That's extending the base react component class, not an existing component class.

EugeneOZ8y ago

Well, if you think there's a difference then we never agree :)

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