React and React Native

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the different ways to extend existing components. The first mechanism you learned about was inheritance. This is done using ES2015 class syntax and is useful for implementing common methods or JSX markup.

Then, you learned about higher-order components, where you use a function to wrap one component with another to provide it with new capabilities. This is the direction that new React applications are moving in, instead of inheritance and mixins.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to render components based on the current URL.