Note: If you're looking for my slides onGit Under the Hood: Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History, I had accidentally temporarily published them under the URL for this post. Please see that link for those slides.

I had the opportunity to speak at React Boston each of the last two years -my first talk on the Redux Ecosystem in 2017), and last year'simpromptu talk on "The State of Redux".

This year, I had a chance to do a lightning talk based on my postBlogged Answers: Thoughts on React Hooks, Redux, and Separation of Concerns, and expanded on those thoughts with a look at how we've handled reusing code in React apps in the past and how the tradeoffs of hooks and HOCs manifest themselves in React-Redux.

As always, I had an amazing time, and thanks to the entire React Boston team for putting together a great experience.

(Side note: thereally amusing part this year was that I accidentally grabbed my work laptop power cord on the way out the door instead of the charger for my personal laptop, and didn't realize it until I got to the airport. I had to keep my laptop off the whole weekend to preserve battery, and only turned it on for 15 minutes to build and publish my slides the day before, and then about a half hour before I went on stage so I could review and give the talk. Fortunately, it worked out okay. Sure was glad to see the charger on my couch when I got home :) )

Here's the video and the slides:

Hooks, HOCs, and Tradeoffs - video 🔗︎

Hooks, HOCs, and Tradeoffs - slides 🔗︎

This is a post in thePresentations series.Other posts in this series:

• Jun 13, 2025 -Presentations: The State of React and the Community in 2025
• Nov 21, 2024 -Presentations: Maintaining a Library and a Community
• Nov 21, 2024 -React Advanced 2024: Designing Effective Documentation
• Jul 09, 2024 -React Summit 2024: Why Use Redux Today?
• Nov 13, 2023 -React Summit US 2023: What's New in Redux Toolkit 2.0
• Oct 24, 2023 -React Advanced 2023 - Building Better React DevTools with Replay Time Travel
• Aug 16, 2023 -React Rally 2023 - A (Brief) Guide to React Rendering Behavior
• Jun 01, 2023 -Presentations: Debugging JavaScript
• Dec 11, 2022 -Presentations: 2022 Podcasts
• Jun 27, 2022 -Presentations: Modern Redux with Redux Toolkit
• May 04, 2022 -Reactathon 2022: The Evolution of Redux Async Logic
• May 04, 2022 -TS Congress 2022: Lesson from Maintaining TS Libraries
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: Learn Modern Redux Livestream
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: The State of Redux, May 2021
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: Podcast Appearances in 2021
• May 25, 2021 -Presentations: Using Git Effectively
• Dec 20, 2020 -Presentations: Intro to React, Redux, and TypeScript (2020)
• Dec 03, 2020 -Presentations: Podcast Appearances in 2020
• Oct 08, 2020 -Global React Meetup: The State of Redux 2020
• Oct 19, 2019 -Git Under the Hood: Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History
• Sep 24, 2019 -React Boston 2019: Hooks, HOCs, and Tradeoffs
• Jun 11, 2019 -ReactNext 2019: A Deep Dive into React-Redux
• May 22, 2019 -Presentation: JavaScript for Java Devs
• Mar 31, 2019 -Reactathon 2019 Keynote: The State of Redux
• Oct 01, 2018 -React Boston 2018 Presentation: The State of Redux
• Jun 30, 2018 -Redux Fundamentals Workshop Slides
• Mar 20, 2018 -Reactathon Presentation: Redux Fundamentals
• Mar 07, 2018 -Presentation: Intro to React and Redux (March 2018)
• Sep 24, 2017 -React Boston 2017 Presentation: You Might Need Redux (And Its Ecosystem)
• Feb 24, 2017 -Presentation Sources Published
• Feb 17, 2017 -Presentation: Intro to React and Redux
• Oct 07, 2016 -Presentation: Modern Web Dev Overview