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Kevin Schiener
Personal blog · schiener.ioprogrammingweb
Kevin Schiener's personal blog at schiener.io covers programming and web. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Schiener's posts on React closures as supporting evidence that React has hidden footguns and implicit behaviour, alongside a post on the rules of hooks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kevin Schiener on Web Development.
Most-linked posts?
- Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-03
- Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How the React compiler won't save you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-07
What Hacker News says?
> It's winning because at the core it's just JavaScript function composition. Except it's not. It has a bunch of footguns and implicit behaviours that make no sense unless you're well-versed in the internals of React. See: https://macwright.com/2024/09/19/the-extra-rules-of-hooks https://www.schiener.io/2024-03-03/react-closures And JSX by itself is already a DSL, which drastically changes how it works based on the…
Comment linking /2024-03-03/react-closures
on “React is winning by default and slowing innovation”Submitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chrome, HTML Canvas, and `willReadFrequently` as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How the React compiler won't save you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How the React compiler won't save you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks II: Closures vs. React Query as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How useCallback and closures can bite you as a story · 1 points
HN discussion