[MPiccinato]

I am always intrigued when I come across an article like this, after having done 2+ years of React development, and have never seen these patterns (Provider Pattern), nor seen them debated (Render Props). I do pay attention to the community here and there, and constantly poke around open source react libraries.

I tend to bring in patterns from iOS development, such as Delegates, especially when using React Native, and is really useful when using Flow or TypeScript.

We heavily rely on the Material-UI library (https://material-ui-next.com/) and have brought a lot of their patterns into our libraries, mostly how reusable components are composed.

[wuliwong]

I just heard about the Provider pattern this week when reading about using react-router and mobx. That being said, it is a solution to a "problem" that I noticed fairly early on in my react usage.