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Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

React is absolute trash and people should stop using it

[–] Hugh@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dont think that's an unpopular opinion

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I can do fullstack but only do backend at work. And that one time I said useState feels like a really dated solution, which was a really recent comment I made, the gasps I heard from the room was palpable and people had to calm themselves down.

[–] rounding_error@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Svelte, baby, svelte