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What’s New in React 16.6

React version 16.6 is out and it comes packed with some useful new features that are very much worth getting excited about. It's a minor release with major features focused on performance optimization. The main new features include: React.memo() React.lazy() static contextType() static getDerivedStateFromError() a number of deprecations in StrictMode Let's take a look into what each of these features adds to React. React.memo() React.memo() is the functional component solution to React.PureComponent as used in class components. It's a higher order component that is wrapped around functional components to create memoized components.   The result is a component that only rerenders when it's props change, acting kind of like shouldComponentUpdate(). Using m...