Understanding React Higher-Order Components by Example

Build a React higher-order component step-by-step to understand how to implement the HOC pattern

Trey Huffine
Level Up Coding
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5 min readMar 13, 2018

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In this tutorial we will cover the concepts needed to build your own higher-order components (HOC). We will implement a HOC to save React state to localStorage, called withStorage, that will allow you to inject the functionality into components without needing to duplicate the logic across your entire application.

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