React developer unable to stop saying, “Have you tried using hooks?”
Palo Alto, CA — Michael Smith, a Symbolic Systems major at Stanford University, has recently learned React.js, a popular Javascript framework often revered by those in the tech sector. One problem, though: he cannot stop saying the phrase, “Have you tried using hooks?”
Smith has seen every doctor in the Bay Area to diagnose his speech problem, but every physician has been more stunned than the next. Although Smith is not the first student at Stanford to be infected, there is still no reasonable scientific explanation.
Brandon Michael, Smith’s roommate, writes in: “It’s honestly been a nightmare. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to shouts of ‘use effect!’ and ‘use state!’. Michael has even hung up a picture of Dan Abramov on our dorm ceiling.”
This phenomenon has certainly piqued the interests of local venture capitalists. Brenda Lee, a partner at A19B ventures, claims that his speech problem “is a strong signal in terms of brand awareness for React, with more and more millennials flocking to this product than traditional frameworks.”
Other local venture capitalists are eager to capitalize on this event and have asked to invest in React’s next round of funding. Upon learning that React is open-source and a product of Facebook, Adam Michaels, partner at Tuft Ventures, remarked, “I’m sad I passed on the chance to invest in Facebook in the early days. But it has made me a better husband and father.”
At the time of this writing, it is unknown whether or not Smith has resolved his speech issue. Sources close to Smith report that he is ready to move on to the next trendy framework. Other insider sources report that the next big framework is Vue.js.
