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Can be useful in Higher Order Components.\n\n\n## Motivations\n\nIt's recommented to use Higher Order Components (HOC) over `mixins` and over `context`\n\nhttps://medium.com/@dan_abramov/mixins-are-dead-long-live-higher-order-components-94a0d2f9e750\nhttps://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmful.html\nhttps://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/749715530454622208/photo/1\n\nBut sometimes HOC is burdensome\n\n###### Example\n\n```js\n// some fake HOCs\n@connectRedux()\n@withRouter()\n@sthElse()\nclass MyAwesomeInput extends Component {\n  focus() {\n    return this.input.focus();\n  }\n\n  render() {\n    return (\n      \u003clabel\u003e\n        \u003cinput ref={(input) =\u003e this.input = input} /\u003e\n      \u003c/label\u003e\n    );\n  }\n}\n\nclass App extends Component {\n  componentDidMount() {\n\n    // WTF!!! This is not an awesome Input!!!\n    this.awesomeInput.getWrappedInstance().getWrappedInstance().getWrappedInstance().focus();\n\n  }\n\n  render() {\n    return (\n      \u003cMyAwesomeInput ref={(input) =\u003e this.awesomeInput = input} /\u003e\n    );\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### With hoist-react-instance-methods \n\n```js\n@hoistReactInstanceMethods(\n\n  // get instance\n  (input) =\u003e input.getWrappedInstance().getWrappedInstance().getWrappedInstance(),\n\n  // specify method names to be copied\n  ['focus']\n\n)\n@connectRedux()\n@withRouter()\n@sthElse()\nclass MyAwesomeInput extends Component {\n  focus() {\n    return this.input.focus();\n  }\n\n  render() {\n    return (\n      \u003cdiv\u003e\n        \u003cinput ref={(input) =\u003e this.input = input} /\u003e\n      \u003c/div\u003e\n    );\n  }\n}\n\nclass App extends Component {\n  componentDidMount() {\n\n    // Awesome!\n    this.awesomeInput.focus();\n\n  }\n\n  render() {\n    return (\n      \u003cMyAwesomeInput ref={(input) =\u003e this.awesomeInput = input} /\u003e\n    );\n  }\n}\n```\n\n\n## Usage\n\n```js\nimport hoistReactInstanceMethods from 'hoist-react-instance-methods';\n\nhoistReactInstanceMethods(getInstance, methods)(TargetComponent);\n\n// `getInstance` example:\n// const getInstance = (instance) =\u003e instance.refs.app;\n```\n\n###### Arguments\n\n1. `getInstance` (Function): Get the ref element. The only argument `instance` is the instance of `TargetComponent`. Should return a component instance\n2. `methods` ([String]): Specify method names to be copied\n\n\n###### Returns\n\nA higher-order React component class\n\n\n## Installation\n\n```bash\nyarn add hoist-react-instance-methods\n```\n\n\n## License\n\nMIT\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcap32%2Fhoist-react-instance-methods","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fcap32%2Fhoist-react-instance-methods","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcap32%2Fhoist-react-instance-methods/lists"}