[lojack]

> It claims to be self-contained but parent-child communication breaks it in several ways

I think you'll find that most react developers advise against doing parent-child communication in react components for all but the simplest cases. Does it involve writing higher order components? Probably. Curious, why aren't you a big fan of them?

[Existenceblinks]

Higher order components to me is a hacky technique and mostly seen as a monkey patch to the limitation of lower component.

A concrete example is responsive table components with the help of HOC, says `react-dimensions` (sorry author, I have to mention here but there is nothing specifically wrong with it), why do I need it as a separate component? Oh flexibility and reusability but when I tried wrapping 2 or 3 table libraries with it, it sucks at rendering on desktop, even worse on mobile! I gave up on performance issue. Ah that doesn't mean the HOC technique itself is bad, but from my experience it is.