> Debugging was hell. I've always hated hooks, they replaced easy and clear lifecycle functions and rely on magic to work, literally don't function like regular js functions but look like regular functions
You know, with how hooks work in Vue, things seem be easier to understand and get started with.
Though at least with React I've had plenty of projects end up with render loops that are hard to debug because of how everything is written. So much so, that I wrote a blog post about it a while back "Modern React is broken": https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac...
Personally I wish that we could already have some tooling that'd tell you something along the lines of:
Render loop detected! The following chain of calls was responsible for it: A -> B -> C -> A -> B -> ...
Please check the useEffect hook on line X, which has the following items in its dependency array which changed: [Y, Z]
You know, with how hooks work in Vue, things seem be easier to understand and get started with.
Though at least with React I've had plenty of projects end up with render loops that are hard to debug because of how everything is written. So much so, that I wrote a blog post about it a while back "Modern React is broken": https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac...
Personally I wish that we could already have some tooling that'd tell you something along the lines of: