[larzang]

> Which is one reason why I don't quite understand why there are class based components at all.

Classes in js are just syntax sugar, so even if you're writing classes you're still actually writing function prototypes. As such there's little reason not to support them, and they're very welcome when you have a team of developers that are adapting to modern js development almost exclusively from traditional OO languages.

[e12e]

Hm. I might have to have another look at the implementation of classes in js. I still don't see the benefit of the syntax - but if it really amounts to just convoluted closures over variables, I guess I'll view them with a little less grumpiness :)