It is unclear where React is heading

Tom Smykowski
2 min readNov 20, 2020

Facebook advocates for using functions, because, like it seems, they are easier to understand than objects essentially advocating for dropping object-oriented programming. With growing adoption of React Hooks the trend becomes even more interesting experiment to watch.

Because, even React Hooks can be described as a great solution for some problems - these problems occurred because Facebook rejects object-oriented programming.

It makes React Hooks nothing more than useful, but a hack to prove React can live without objects. Life that is…

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