I think this article does a pretty nice job breaking down the benefits: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-fdbde8803889 https://medium.

I think this article does a pretty nice job breaking down the benefits: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-fdbde8803889 https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-... I was pretty skeptical at first, and perfectly happy with the render props pattern, but after using hooks for a few weeks I'm liking it much better.