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RussianCow a day ago | parent | next [-]

React was actually pretty simple in the early days. It's gotten significantly more complex because of hooks, suspense, SSR, and other features they've introduced more recently. But I would still take modern React over AngularJS 1 and I think it's far more explicit.

	▲	rimunroe a day ago \| parent [-]
		The source code for hooks when they were initially released was actually really straightforward too. It's been many years since I've read through other parts of the source code though.

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AstroBen a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, that's where the complexity is supposed to be

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johnfn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

All framework code has magic in it. But I posit that React uses magic internally so that we can write magic-free code. It's like how the Rust compiler contains unsafe code.