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It's more that you can get the information about the state of the browser or server's URL down deep into the component tree and then more easily act on it (with a few components, rather than a larger case statement).

It's basically idiomatic JS vs idiomatic React/JSX.

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That's a fair point. Kind of like adding a redux @connect in a child component.

Edit: To the idiomatic point. The first thing that struct me when using React, was that instead of having to use a custom Component for a for loop I could just use someArray.map(). I see this as a similar situation.

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