I’m new to using ES6 classes with React, previously I’ve been binding my methods to the current object (show in first example), but does ES6 allow me to permanently bind a class function to a class instance with arrows? (Useful when passing as a callback function.) I get errors when I try to use them as you can with CoffeeScript:

class SomeClass extends React.Component {

  // Instead of this
  constructor(){
    this.handleInputChange = this.handleInputChange.bind(this)
  }

  // Can I somehow do this? Am i just getting the syntax wrong?
  handleInputChange (val) => {
    console.log('selectionMade: ', val);
  }

So that if I were to pass SomeClass.handleInputChange to, for instance setTimeout, it would be scoped to the class instance, and not the window object.

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