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Re:Frustrations with React Hooks by istoica on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:37AM (#20929360)
How are your functions pure if inside them you call `useEffect`, `useState` ? Where is pureness when at first look they generate side effects, or am I missing something ?
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Re:Frustrations with React Hooks by s_y_n_t_a_x on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:39AM (#20929390)
Not all functions needs hooks, not all hooks break pureness.

But my point was functions are simpler in all those scenarios, pure or not. Edited my comment to reflect that.

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Re:Frustrations with React Hooks by csande17 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:14PM (#20929809)
> not all hooks break pureness

Sure, if you define a function called useWhatever that doesn't actually call any hooks, that might be a pure function. But the restrictions described in https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html are not restrictions that pure functions have.

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