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import { useRef, useInsertionEffect, useCallback } from 'react';
// The useEvent API has not yet been added to React,
// so this is a temporary shim to make this sandbox work.
// You're not expected to write code like this yourself.
export function useEvent(fn) {
const ref = useRef(null);
useInsertionEffect(() => {
ref.current = fn;
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sebmarkbage / WhyReact.md
Created September 4, 2019 20:33
Why is React doing this?

I heard some points of criticism to how React deals with reactivity and it's focus on "purity". It's interesting because there are really two approaches evolving. There's a mutable + change tracking approach and there's an immutability + referential equality testing approach. It's difficult to mix and match them when you build new features on top. So that's why React has been pushing a bit harder on immutability lately to be able to build on top of it. Both have various tradeoffs but others are doing good research in other areas, so we've decided to focus on this direction and see where it leads us.

I did want to address a few points that I didn't see get enough consideration around the tradeoffs. So here's a small brain dump.

"Compiled output results in smaller apps" - E.g. Svelte apps start smaller but the compiler output is 3-4x larger per component than the equivalent VDOM approach. This is mostly due to the code that is usually shared in the VDOM "VM" needs to be inlined into each component. The tr