Yes, JSX was created for React. It was at the time a controversial syntax that most disliked. There’s a great Honeypot documentary on React that goes over it.
That is literally what useEffect is for! Describe your side effect, provide a list of values that you want the hook to watch for when they change. `useEffect(someEffect, [value1, value2, value3]`
> the very natural, and often inevitable, concept of side effects
React uses a functional programming model. Always has. Watch the Honeypot React documentary and notice how many times the earliest adopters say they were excited to have way to express UIs functionally. Functional programmers believe in minimizing side effects. If you don't like the paradigm, there are 1000 other UI frameworks that use an imperative model. Complaints like yours read like someone complaining that their screwdriver isn't a hammer.
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Yes, JSX was created for React. It was at the time a controversial syntax that most disliked. There’s a great Honeypot documentary on React that goes over it.
> what if you only want to perform a side effect when a particular value changes?
https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffect
That is literally what useEffect is for! Describe your side effect, provide a list of values that you want the hook to watch for when they change. `useEffect(someEffect, [value1, value2, value3]`
> the very natural, and often inevitable, concept of side effects
React uses a functional programming model. Always has. Watch the Honeypot React documentary and notice how many times the earliest adopters say they were excited to have way to express UIs functionally. Functional programmers believe in minimizing side effects. If you don't like the paradigm, there are 1000 other UI frameworks that use an imperative model. Complaints like yours read like someone complaining that their screwdriver isn't a hammer.