React changing best practices every few years is a good thing! It means it keeps getting better. That would be a bad thing if it meant that earlier best practi

React changing best practices every few years is a good thing! It means it keeps getting better. That would be a bad thing if it meant that earlier best practices were no longer maintained. But that’s not true. Class components are still around. All official documentation continues to have class component examples and explanations (where it makes sense obviously…there isn’t any class component documentation under hooks, of course). And class components will likely still be around 5 years from now.