Sam and Ryan talk about render props in React. They discuss where they came from, how Hooks superseded them for sharing stateful logic, how data attributes compare to them for customizing styling, and how for certain complex components like forms they're still a great solution for accessing slices of internal state.

Render props

Intro

Where did render props come from?

How hooks replaced many use cases for render props

Using render props for custom styling

Data attributes vs. render props for custom styling

Using render props to peek into an uncontrolled component's internal state

Forms example and using render props for a smaller public API

React docs mention of render props

Where render props shine

Render props

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