Switch to component classes instead of stateless functional components?

Question

Switch to component classes instead of stateless functional components?

turnerhayes opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Wanted to bring this up for discussion; it appears that Stateless Functional components (i.e. components declared as simple functions, not classes) are not (easily) selectable in React Devtools (intentionally). The $r shortcut is really useful for inspecting state and props. Should we convert our components to class components?

Turner Hayes · Answer 1 · Wed Nov 07 2018 07:44:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I believe Hot Module Reloading is also not available with SFCs (although not 100% on that).

knod · Answer 2 · Wed Nov 07 2018 20:36:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hot reloading is fun, it's true. Can you link to an article or two on the advantages of stateless functional components so we can weigh pros and cons?

Michael Caveney · Answer 3 · Sun Nov 11 2018 10:44:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm a little skeptical, this seems like a lot of refactoring for what strikes me as a minor convenience for developers. IIRC, quite a few of the components in the app are SFCs already.