Comment by megaman821
5 days ago
Exactly what are you using in React land that has lasted for 6-7 years. No components to hooks transition? No styling library changes? No state management changes? No meta framework changes? The React ecosystem is the least stable thing I have ever worked with.
Hooks were introduced in 2019. so, seven years ago.
Even only looking at React provided hooks, they added a lot over years and best practices around things like useEffect have changed a lot.
If you have a complex app from 2019 that you haven't updated, it is virtually guaranteed that it has memory leaks and bugs.
I don't really agree that "best practices around useEffect have changed a lot". It's more that that particular hook was used a lot when it didn't need to be so the team finally wrote some guidelines.
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