Comment by satvikpendem
16 days ago
React uses an algebraic effectful function model which is elegant once one understands it: https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
16 days ago
React uses an algebraic effectful function model which is elegant once one understands it: https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
So it makes sense because there's a fancy name for it? For a moment let's just imagine you are inventing a brand new UI framework. You obviously want to have components in it. So how do you represent a component in your new framework? A component needs state, logic and a way to render that state. Do you choose to represent the component as a class which naturally encapsulates state as properties and logic as methods or do you choose to represent components as functions which lack state so you bolt it on via an implicitly injected context that you access via abstractions?
Read into how OCaml 5 does it and you'll have your answer.