Note: This was largely written around Summer 2018. Things move fast in the frontend world, and there is now a new and easier way to manage state in your React application. Check out hooks as alternative to these older methods that required additional components that polluted your virtual dom. Leaving this up as a record of improvements, so that hopefully you can look back at the way we had to structure things to share state management.
A discussion about common Paradigms in React, including functional components, higher order components, and render props.
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