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create-react-class
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A drop-in replacement for React.createClass.
Refer to the React documentation for more information.
The main React package itself now supports hooks, which can be used to write components in a functional style without classes. Hooks provide similar functionalities to lifecycle methods and state management without the need for create-react-class.
Preact-compat is a layer over Preact that attempts to achieve React compatibility with a smaller footprint. It allows you to use React-like components and lifecycle methods, similar to create-react-class, but with Preact's optimizations.
Recompose is a React utility belt for function components and higher-order components. It provides the ability to write components in a functional manner and can be seen as an alternative to create-react-class, especially before hooks were introduced in React.
FAQs
Legacy API for creating React components.
The npm package create-react-class receives a total of 1,875,407 weekly downloads. As such, create-react-class popularity was classified as popular.
We found that create-react-class demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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