Can I refactor a HOC into a custom hook?
Yes, usually. The HOC's shared logic becomes a custom hook that returns the state and behavior, and components call the hook directly instead of being wrapped. This removes the nesting and prop collisions.
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HOCs wrap a component and return a new one. Render props pass a function as a prop that renders with shared state. Custom hooks are functions starting with 'use' that encapsulate stateful logic and are called directly. All three reuse logic.
Because they solve the same problem without the downsides. There is no wrapper nesting, no prop collisions, and logic composes naturally by calling multiple hooks. They are cleaner and easier to read and test.
A pattern where a component takes a function as a prop and calls it to render, passing shared state. It was a pre-hooks alternative to HOCs, but it caused deep callback nesting and inversion of control.
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