Why did React use Higher-Order Components?
Before hooks, there was no clean way to reuse stateful logic across components. HOCs let you share that logic by wrapping components, so multiple components could reuse the same behavior.
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A Higher-Order Component is a function that takes a component and returns a new component. The new component wraps the original and adds extra behavior, like data fetching or auth checks, and passes props to the wrapped component.
Prop name collisions between wrapped props, deep nesting that is hard to read, difficulty typing, and harder debugging because of wrapper layers. These issues led to hooks replacing them.
Yes, for most cases. Custom hooks solve the same problem, reusing stateful logic, without the nesting and prop collisions. A useAuth hook is cleaner than a withAuth HOC and composes better.
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