Most cases of mixins (especially ones that involve state, as you allude to) can be implemented via composition by creating wrapper components instead. This is h

Most cases of mixins (especially ones that involve state, as you allude to) can be implemented via composition by creating wrapper components instead. This is how Relay (http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-relay-and-graphql.html http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-...) works and makes different components more contained and easier to reason about. Here's one description of how to develop containers (really, higher-order components) from someone who works on Relay: https://github.com/ericclemmons/react-resolver/issues/8#issuecomment-77765843 https://github.com/ericclemmons/react-resolver/issues/8#issu... (We know people are excited about React Native and we're working hard to get it out the door – keep your eyes peeled!)