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I miss explicit component lifecycle methods in React like `componentDidMount`

Felt far easier to reason about than 15 `useEffect` functions littered in the component where you have to inspect the dependency array to know what's going on

Am I just being redacted / is there a better approach here?

It's just understanding the shift to a slightly more implicit behavior. I think hooks, and the implicit return cleanup function, co-locate logic better.

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

Fwiw, you can mimic the behavior by setting up a useEffect with [] in the deps array and that is considered the idiomatic way to handle on Mount in my experience

Yeah, I'm aware -- and using the cleanup callback within that method to handle unmount

But it just feels too implicit / not easy to manage when you have a lot of logic predicated on state changes

Feels like those state vars should just be in the dep array but I'm sure I'm over generalizing and would need to peep the actual code 😅

Nah, I think I just dislike this pattern and am venting 😆 

It's perfectly functional

Also I use the exhaustive-deps lint rule which keeps gaslighting me