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    1 year ago

    There many ways of doing things in react and some are faster than others. I would abuse state and use effect at my old job but at this job my sr dev doesn’t allow me to use useffect unless the situation warrants it.

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      1 year ago

      Ahh yes, abusing state can be temping. Just a little tweak here, it’s ok… no one is looking… oh crap!

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        1 year ago

        I’m relatively new to React (about 8 months in with React Native). Can you give me some examples of abusing state?

        At one point I was struggling with getting an edit control to render when I wanted (an issue with controlled vs non controlled) and I found myself setting a do-nothing state to force a rerender. That fixed my immediate issue, but I knew it was wrong enough that I had to come back to it later and revise the whole screen (went and learned how to use reducers which made everything on my more complex screens easier).