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Discussion on: The Evolution of Signals in JavaScript

 
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Ryan Carniato

React's Hook complaint from React developers center around dependency arrays, needing hooks to indicate memoization, and how useEffect is almost an abstraction leak. The messy bloated code is almost completely related to those. The syntax is almost never a concern within the community.

It will be interesting to see what is done here give Angular does a lot with classes. They've been showing off the low level primitives. I suspect they will end up getting in there like that even if this. kinda defeats to the point. Being decoupled from the component is a super power.

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Jim Moore

Is learning solid easier for react devs than poj devs.
I never used react. Played w vue n svelte but am not finding many examples of solid for framework newbies. Referrals pls. I really want to use solid cuz i do appreciate its philosophy.

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Darryl Noakes

Vue's hook-like Composition API was dead-on-arrival because of it.

I disagree. As Ryan said, the issues with React are the dependency arrays, which are not present in pretty much any other framework, including Vue.
As the Vue docs say (Comparison with React Hooks), the Composition API avoids these issues due to the different reactivity system, how component code is run, and how components are rendered.

Is it possible to get the benefit of signals with normal code, like this.count = this.count + 1 instead of setCount(count() + 1)?

This is the equivalent in Vue's composition API: myThing.value = myThing.value + 1 or myThing.value += 1

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