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Re:React 19 by the_gipsy on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:17PM (#42334438)
It's nowhere close to pure, in the FP sense. Everything in React is an act around side effects of rendering.

So it's gotta be something else that makes it so popular.

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Re:React 19 by math_dandy on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:57PM (#42335326)
Hooks do a nice job of encapsulating the impurity. Not the only way to do it, but it’s pretty slick.
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