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Alex Sidorenko

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Alex Sidorenko's personal blog at alexsidorenko.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Visual Guide to React Rendering – Cheat Sheet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its React rendering guide, a set of six short posts on rendering behavior, memoization and hooks. One commenter calls it one of the best guides and says it still holds up.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Visual Guide to React Rendering – Cheat Sheet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-20
  2. A Visual Guide to React Rendering
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. culi · 2025-08-29Recommends
    This was one of the best guides out there when it came out. It's from 2021 but I think it still holds up https://alexsidorenko.com/blog/react-render-always-rerenders It's a set of 6 short and sweet posts that breaks down rendering behavior, memoization, and relevant hooks

    Comment linking /blog/react-render-always-rerenders

    on “The GitHub website is slow on Safari”
  2. Submitted A Visual Guide to React Rendering as a story · 189 points

    HN discussion
  3. Josh's post is excellent! Related, a couple years back I wrote a post on the same topic: "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior" [0]. It's longer and has more details, but fewer diagrams :) (Josh's ability to make interactive posts is amazing.) I originally wrote my "Rendering Behavior" post specifically because the existing React docs didn't clearly spell out this kind of behavior, and I was _consta…

    Comment linking /blog/react-render-cheat-sheet/

    on “Why React Re-Renders”
  4. Submitted A Visual Guide to React Rendering – Cheat Sheet as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Visual Guide to UseEffect as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How Code Splitting Improves Lighthouse Score? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A Visual Guide to React Rendering – Context – Alex Sidorenko as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A Visual Guide to React Rendering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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