The Painfully Accurate Depiction of Using React Hooks

React Hooks promised to free us from wrapper hell, only to introduce us to dependency array purgatory

“Sure, ditch Redux,” they said - twenty interleaved useState/useEffect chains later, I’m debugging what looks suspiciously like an event-sourced broker jammed entirely inside the render phase

The best part about React Hooks is explaining to your team why the infinite re-render loop that's melting production is actually following the Rules of Hooks perfectly

React Hooks: where 'fishhook' and 'useEffect dependency' finally mean the same thing - both leave you dangling

React hooks: where 'just add it to the dependency array' becomes the new 'have you tried turning it off and on again,' except now your useEffect runs infinitely and you're debugging why your component re-renders 47 times per keystroke. The exhaustive-deps ESLint rule isn't a suggestion - it's a prophecy of the tangled web you're about to weave, where every state variable becomes a fish hook pulling you deeper into the closure abyss

React Hooks: miss one dependency and you ship a stale closure; add it and you summon an infinite re-render - pick your hook

React hooks: because nothing restrains your components quite like a missed dependency triggering infinite re-render purgatory

React is great until useState needs useEffect, which needs useCallback to appease exhaustive-deps - and StrictMode double-mounts it - then your component looks like Patrick at a tackle shop