Introduction
Explore how higher order components enable reusable component logic in React by wrapping components with added functionality. Understand the distinction between smart components handling business logic and dumb components focusing on display. This lesson helps you grasp component organization for cleaner, modular React applications.
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What are higher order components?
Higher order components (or HOC or HOCs for short) were, and still are, a central concept in React. They allow you to implement components with reusable logic and are loosely tied to higher order functions from functional programming. These kinds of functions take a function as a parameter and return another function. In terms of React, this principle is applied to components. HOCs derive their name from those higher order functions.
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