Can We All Just Admit React Hooks Were a Bad Idea?
Part 2: According to the React team
If you haven’t read Part 1, you might want to check it out now:
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From the React team itself
As I sat down to work on this post, I of course did a search to see what the most current state of the conversation on the matter is, and I found this gem on Reddit talking about why the React Team has realized that coding like they told you to has put developers in a world of hurt.
Basically, it boils down to “data fetching from inside components is a bad idea.” Which anyone who has been doing enterprise development for long enough to have seen MVC come into existence could have told you — it’s why MVC rose to prominence. Mixing your business logic (not just data fetching…
