Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by jasongi on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:23PM
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You aren’t the only person, I’ve certainly heard it before. But I’m yet to hear a convincing rebuttal to Mixins Considered Harmful [1], the hooks talk [2] or the Motivation section [3] on the announcement.
The arguments I’ve heard is that it is “cleaner”, “more understandable” or the OO style is preferred. Some developers feel uncomfortable with hook magic because it introduces a more niche programming concept than OO (e.g stateful functions). I don’t find these arguments compelling. What the React team managed to do was reproduce the same functionality as class components while decreasing the footguns associated with them.
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down
by chrisza4 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:03PM
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I think there is more footgun in the hooks, especially rules of hooks. I worked with Junior dev and I can see unexperienced dev misused hooks more often than lifecycle.
The arguments I’ve heard is that it is “cleaner”, “more understandable” or the OO style is preferred. Some developers feel uncomfortable with hook magic because it introduces a more niche programming concept than OO (e.g stateful functions). I don’t find these arguments compelling. What the React team managed to do was reproduce the same functionality as class components while decreasing the footguns associated with them.
1. https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmfu...
2. https://youtu.be/dpw9EHDh2bM
3. https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation