Unlocking the Power of Closures in React Components

With explained code samples

Lanka Rathnayaka
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJan 30, 2023

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In simple closure is a function that has access to variables in its parent scope, even after the parent function has finished executing. That’s the simple straightforward definition.

We can use the ability of closures inside react to make things easier. As usual, let’s go with simple examples.

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