September 11, 2019

Side effects aren't declarative. What if they were?

Episode 73 // The EmberMap Podcast

Sam and Ryan talk more about their recent experience working with React Hooks. They dive into useEffect, talk about how the hooks paradigm encourages UI developers to think about their application's side effects declaratively, discuss whether the paradigm is too much of a departure from real-world stateful UI development, and compare it to working with side effects in Ember applications.

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Topics include:

  • 0:53 – Metaphysics and JavaScript by Rich Harris, and declarative side effects
  • 15:26 – An Ember example that would be improved by hooks and declarative side effects
  • 23:46 – Pitfalls and escape hatches when using hooks
  • 35:40 – Rich's argument that rendering isn't even a declarative function of state, let alone side effects
  • 41:42 – Deeper dive into useEffect docs
  • 1:01:41 – Thought experiment on effects that sync with different data stores

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