Why change from static properties to named exports for the new data-fetching methods?

[rafaelalmeidatk]

I am not criticizing the change, just curious about the reason since getInitialProps is a static property in the page component and now we have named exports for the new methods. Is it for code elimination (libs utilized only in server-side methods, for example), easier to type, or perhaps a more semantic usage of modules? (I am not sure this last thing I said makes sense lol)

[timneutkens]

All of the above 😄

• It's impossible to do the code elimination without having it as an explicit export as there are many ways the property could be assigned.
• With class components the static method made sense semantically but since hooks were introduced everyone is more likely to write function components where the assignment was slightly strange
• It's easier to type and extract the type of getStaticProps/getServerSideProps as they're not mixing with the React types

[rafaelalmeidatk]

Thanks for the answer, Tim!