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Use Decorators for React Higher Order Components

When working with React libraries that make use of higher order components, you wrap your component in a function:

import { withRouter } from 'react-router-dom';

class MyComponent extends Component {
  ...
}

export default withRouter(MyComponent)

When chaining through multiple HOC's, this can become unwieldly:

import { withRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';

class MyComponent extends Component {
  ...
}

function mapStateToProps(state) { ... };

export default withRouter(connect(mapStateToProps)(MyComponent));

But there is hope, with the decorator syntax in ES6/Babel you can make this look a bit cleaner:

import { withRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';

function mapStateToProps(state) { ... };

@withRouter
@connect(mapStateToProps)
export default class MyComponent extends Component {
  ...
}

Full documentation here.

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