Thinking in React Hooks
I have not been a fan of hooks thus far, but these are some intriguing examples. Especially the useMemo ones.My complaints about hooks are that with hooks we lose useful tools in our react toolkit: class methods, separate componentDidMount/componentDidUpdate lifecycle events, shouldComponentUpdate, PureComponent, etc.And my biggest complaint is that we're losing simplicity. React spread like wildfire when it first came out because it was so beautifully simple: a class, with something called `props`, and this.state and this.setState(). That's it. You can build SO MUCH with just that.To me, with hooks, React's simplicity is being replaced by cloudiness. There's so much "magic" now. The order of hooks in the code is the most important thing for a hook component to work right. New linter rules had to be built to remind people where hooks need to be written.I do appreciate the work that's been put into hooks. And like any other open source project, I'm incredibly grateful to the authors and maintainers. I guess I just wonder if anyone shares the same sentiments as mine, because it seems like the only thing I read about this topic is that classes suck, class components are full of pitfalls, etc.