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I also prefer hooks. They give you the flexibility of mixins with a better composition story. And reusing hooks in my experience is more like a lightweight OOP style, compared to the somewhat clunky FP ceremony of higher order components, as the API makes it feel like I'm passing around instances of little state objects. The refactoring flow is also dead simple. I prototype behavior inline at the top of a render function, then just cut all that out to a reusable hook which I can then choose to move to props or context above the now dumb component, and factor out into smaller hooks as I wish. Slicing the behavioral model of a component up to jam into the class lifecycle methods was painful to me in comparison. The static analysis tooling also finds and allows auto-fixing of scores of dumb mistakes that used to catch me at runtime when using classes or HOCs. My experience with hooks actually got me more interested in learning ReasonML & Elm!