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		Weebs 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a cl... They're modeling reactivity, not classes. It's a well established pattern in functional programming The one time setup mixed with repeated render calls is odd, but it's a design decision they made. It reduces boiler plate, though I don't necessarily agree with it because it is a leaky abstraction

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spankalee 10 days ago [–]

Reactivity and functional programming are orthogonal though.

And in most functional systems the one-time setup function would return the render function so the render function can close over state.

Which is pretty much what a class with fields, a constructor, and a render method give you.

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