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		danabramov on Jan 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: React v0.13.0 Beta 1 I think so, but you'll probably miss `this.setState`. They are moving out `setState` into a sideways module[1] so I assume full-featured classes without React.Component should be possible in the future. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/ed7332c74921874cdcb...

danabramov on Feb 4, 2015 [–]

Indeed, it is not necessary to inherit form React.Component, see confirmation:

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/2975#issuecomment-729...

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