Comment by halflife
4 hours ago
React was ruined from the moment they abandoned class components and introduced hooks. Vercel is just continuing the trend of hype against common sense.
4 hours ago
React was ruined from the moment they abandoned class components and introduced hooks. Vercel is just continuing the trend of hype against common sense.
You are probably a Javascript dev, not doing typescript? Classes were horrible to type for, especially when you tried higher-order components. Hooks removed so much clutter and friction and allows pretty well-typed components and higher order functions (i.e. hooks that return components).
I just don't understand this take, every time I hear it I wonder if people just haven't spent the time to adjust their mental model.
Hooks are IMO the best thing that happened to react.
I have spent more time than I wished for on React debugging tools, and useXXXX spaghetti calls.
Spot on, incredible how OOP hate can mess up a framework.
Vercel, the only thing they have going for the app model mess, are the partnerships with SaaS vendors that make them the must go tooling.
However this will eventually come to an end.