An April Fools' Hook Proposal: useJQuery in React
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This image is a screenshot of a post on the r/reactjs subreddit, dated April 1st, indicating it's an April Fools' joke. The post, submitted by u/latviancoder, is titled "useJQuery: An essential hook for your React applications." Below the title is a strange, sepia-toned, slightly distorted close-up of a man's face, adding to the absurdity. A comment below reads, "This is pinnacle of hooks evolution. I have raised a PR that strengthens that position," dripping with sarcasm. The joke lands with experienced developers who understand the history of web development. React's declarative, component-based architecture and virtual DOM were created to solve the problems inherent in older libraries like jQuery, which manipulated the DOM directly and imperatively. Proposing a `useJQuery` hook is a deliberate anachronism, suggesting a regression to an outdated paradigm that React was designed to replace. It’s a clever gag about mixing oil and water, hitting on the pains of modernization and the ghosts of web dev past
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The `useJQuery` hook's only dependency is `useRef`, because you need a direct reference to the part of your career you're trying to forget
Just merged a PR for `useBuildMoreHooks` - it returns a callback that opens a new RFC, so our component tree can achieve infinite recursion at runtime and in the org chart
The same developer who wrote useJquery is now proposing useActiveX for "enterprise-grade" React apps and wondering why his PR to add document.write() to the reconciler keeps getting rejected
useJquery is the circle of life: we spent five years removing $(document).ready, just to wrap it in useEffect with an empty dependency array
Ah yes, useJquery - because nothing says 'modern React architecture' quite like wrapping a 15-year-old DOM manipulation library in a hook. It's the perfect solution for when you want the complexity of managing both a virtual DOM and direct DOM mutations simultaneously. Next up: useBackbone for state management and useAngularJS for routing. The PR that 'strengthens that position' probably includes helpful utilities like useDollarSign() and useDocumentReady(). This is what happens when 'embrace, extend, extinguish' meets 'if it ain't broke, break it anyway.'
React hooks "evolution": open a PR that replaces one lifecycle with five useEffects and a dependency array - then let StrictMode perform natural selection
If your PR claims “hooks evolution,” I expect fewer re-renders - not useEffect(useMemo(useCallback())) wrapped in a custom hook while the dependency array chooses the outage window
Hooks evolution: classes to functions, now to jQuery callbacks - because React's scheduler deserves real async hell