honestly React Hooks and JSX are so fucking annoying. Just let me use god damn JavaScript for fucks sake. All this extra magic with useEffects, new syntax and producing incompatibilities with the regular JS event loop model is soooooo confusing. I now notice because I'm using nodejs a lot where everything is consistent

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actually I am literally too dumb for the average Facebook academic side effect programming language ideas, so yes, they need to dumb that shit down a lot

it's a simple mental shift, but once it clicks, it clicks forever

you need to think declaratively vs imperatively, like in FP

if you follow the thread responses about localStorage you will see that this isn‘t necessarily true. Nothing clicks because you cannot understand the actual implementation of localStorage and useEffect/useState

It’s usually said that if you’re using useEffect, you’re doing it wrong. Instead, use other library hooks, or refactor useEffect usage into a separate file, exporting with a business-logic name

In this case it’d be useStoredValue(“name”) hook

But i’m not sure I fully understand what is the confusion

if you follow the thread responses about localStorage you will see that this isn‘t necessarily true. Nothing clicks because you cannot understand the actual implementation of localStorage and useEffect/useState https://blog.logrocket.com/using-localstorage-react-hooks/