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Sharing functionality between React components is a pretty common need. The concept is that we can establish the behavior in one place and then extend it across different components. Higher-Order Components are one way to do this. Yet, there is another way using a library called Recompose.

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What is Recompose?

The documentation helps us answer that:

Recompose is a React utility belt for function components and higher-order components. Think of it like lodash for React.

Basically, it’s a …

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I’ve seen two guides posted to Medium about animation in the last month that have seriously blown up!

• Taras Skytskyi’s The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
• Jonas Naimark’s Motion design doesn’t have to be hard

There is a lot to learn in each one! The demonstration animations they use are wonderfully well done and each guide demonstrates an interesting and effective animation technique, often paired next to a less successful technique to drive the point home. …

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Perhaps you know this one: if any part of a selector is invalid, it invalidates the whole selector. For example:

div, span::butt {
background: red;
}

Even though div is a perfectly valid selector, span:butt is not, thus the entire selector is invalidated — neither divs nor span::butt elements on the page will have a red background.

Normally that’s not a terribly huge problem. It may even be even useful, depending on the situation. But there are plenty of situations …

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