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Re:Hooks are the best thing to happen to React by trias on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:11AM (#28968691)
To me React hooks look like they want to be a different programming language while still using js-syntax. It would be great if "useState", "useMemo" and the like would be first class citizens in a PL.

Hooks as they are have some non-obvious rules which can make them hard to understand / learn. Also debugging is not great (but that's true for react in general, imo)

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Re:Hooks are the best thing to happen to React by wruza on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:07PM (#28971298)
You should check out Redux if React seems alien in its own language. This entire stack pretends to be something non-imperative javascript, but at the end of the day just offloads all the burden of writing few layers of abstractions by hand on developers.
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