Development

Imagine walking into a workshop where every tool is scattered across the floor, and to use a simple screwdriver, you first have to build a custom handle from scratch. That was the reality of React development before 2018. We were tethered to complex class components, wrestling with the keyword this, and trapping logic inside rigid […]

Think back to the landscape of web development circa 2018. If you wanted to manage state or handle a component’s lifecycle, you were essentially forced into the world of JavaScript classes. You had to bind methods, deal with the confusing nature of the keyword this, and navigate the “wrapper hell” of higher-order components just to