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Richard Tong

I like data binding, I like having components bound to parts of the model that can automatically react to changes, it reduces boilerplate code and reduces re-renders.

This brings me back to the good ol' Angular 1 days, when data binding was the only stable thing in my hectic life as a code newbie. When I first read this I was like "jeez that almost makes too much sense". This article helped me reinforce the notion that current React projects tend towards a centralized state that propogates downward, rerendering everything along the way. I see this as a real problem for React, so I love the idea behind this library.

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Mike Talbot ⭐

I really didn't like React before "hooks", perhaps this technique would have been possible still, but hooks let me see and implement it. So far I've not run into anything that causes any problems in code which is running in production for several 100 clients so I felt confident to "buck the trend" and make this more widely available...