[mikewhy]

I haven't seen that usage for higher-order components before. This is the pattern I've been following:

    function decorate (Component) {
      let HigherOrderComponent = React.createClass({
        render () {
          return <Component {...this.props} />
        }
      })
      
      return HigherOrderComponent
    }

as explained here: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/mixins-are-dead-long-live-hi...

[HeyImAlex]

They are the same I think, only one has extra parameters. At least in Python, @fn(...args) evaluates the function first and uses the result as a decorator. The guy who wrote the blog post you mention actually uses the parent's pattern in react-dnd.