Functional components are capable of performing all the work of a class-based component beginning with React 16, via the “hooks” API. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.

As we can see it is a class which extends a React component and it holds a few state variables ... we now have a working stateless functional component: As we can see there is a function ...

Only install this HoC if you're still extending the Component class, something which the React documentation doesn't even cover anymore because they went all-in on functional components with hooks. If ...