React

It boggles my mind why anyone would willingly choose to write apps in this language in 2025.

I don’t want to think about rendering cycles or where I’m calling functions from.

I just want to write JavaScript.

Five more hours of my life debugging a React-related issue that I'II never get back 🫠

You’re telling me if I want to conditionally render stuff that relies on state from a Provider, I have to break out the entire subtree into a `useMemo` expression to prevent the Provider from resetting its state whenever an unrelated component randomly decides to re-render??

Make it make sense 🤡

/frontend dev (HTML/CSS)・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・contributor /ethglobal /walletbeat・hackathon bounty hunter・music maker・dropout・nomad・25

React isn’t easy, but if you learn the rules, debugging and fixing stuff like this (or avoiding the issue altogether) becomes second nature. Not saying it’s a you problem, but I feel like React is sold as an easy framework but I disagree with that once a project becomes complex enough.

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Fwiw, I feel like there might be a better solution than useMemo to fix this. Happy to help brainstorm a bit if you want