Excellent response - and sincerely appreciated! When I look at the example you've given with the children API, it strikes me as "I'd do this with Context". This is not to imply that your example is inferior or that mine is "better". Just different paths to the same result.
In some ways, your response has also further-solidified what is (IMHO) a central "issue" with Hooks. Or maybe it's just an "issue" with JS devs. I don't know.
But the "issue" I'm talking about is that, when I've heard people describing Hooks, I've become attuned to the concept that they're almost speaking a different language. A "Hooks person" will often say "Oh, I use Hooks to share state" and "non-Hooks person" will hear that and have an entirely different idea about what the "Hooks-person" was trying to communicate. Then the "non-Hooks person" sits down and starts playing with Hooks - and the constructs don't seem to support everything they were hearing from the "Hooks-people".
To be absolutely, 100%, crystal clear on this, I am NOT saying that this is some kind of "fault" with Hooks, or with "Hooks people", or with React in general. It just seems to be, IMHO, a strange dichotomy that has been building in the React community. Neither side is "right" or "wrong". But it still feels to me like... a problem. And I have no idea what (if anything) can be done about it.
This is what I was trying to get to in the "Developer Cognition" part of the article. I don't honestly think that either "side" is right or wrong. It just feels, increasingly, like there are two different... dialects being spoken.
All that being said, I think the examples are excellent and they've given me some good "food for thought". I appreciate the time!
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Excellent response - and sincerely appreciated! When I look at the example you've given with the children API, it strikes me as "I'd do this with Context". This is not to imply that your example is inferior or that mine is "better". Just different paths to the same result.
In some ways, your response has also further-solidified what is (IMHO) a central "issue" with Hooks. Or maybe it's just an "issue" with JS devs. I don't know.
But the "issue" I'm talking about is that, when I've heard people describing Hooks, I've become attuned to the concept that they're almost speaking a different language. A "Hooks person" will often say "Oh, I use Hooks to share state" and "non-Hooks person" will hear that and have an entirely different idea about what the "Hooks-person" was trying to communicate. Then the "non-Hooks person" sits down and starts playing with Hooks - and the constructs don't seem to support everything they were hearing from the "Hooks-people".
To be absolutely, 100%, crystal clear on this, I am NOT saying that this is some kind of "fault" with Hooks, or with "Hooks people", or with React in general. It just seems to be, IMHO, a strange dichotomy that has been building in the React community. Neither side is "right" or "wrong". But it still feels to me like... a problem. And I have no idea what (if anything) can be done about it.
This is what I was trying to get to in the "Developer Cognition" part of the article. I don't honestly think that either "side" is right or wrong. It just feels, increasingly, like there are two different... dialects being spoken.
All that being said, I think the examples are excellent and they've given me some good "food for thought". I appreciate the time!