Aggelos Arvanitakis
1 min readApr 19, 2019

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Exactly!

The thing is that PureComponent essentially implements the shouldComponentUpdate lifecycle, so that’s why I mention the latter sometimes.

Essentially, I want to make sure that people understand that the shouldComponentUpdate is the thing that does the trick, while PureComponent is simply an re-usable/common implementation of it :)

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