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Untitled is a personal blog at obedparla.com about programming and writing. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Visual Guide to React Mental Models”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A visual guide to React state, useEffect and lifecycles, plus a closures visual. HN commenters discuss its diagrams and a claimed error about when state updates.
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?
- A Visual Guide to React Mental Models3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-25
What Hacker News says?
I find the images very off-putting and unclear. https://obedparla.com/static/1c6caf6685f0bd3381d84a8166579de... What's with the wavy lines as representation? Similarly for an image titled 'Javascript closures visualized', we get https://obedparla.com/static/e0caedb67992235db77271808958da3...
Comment linking /static/e0caedb67992235db77271808958da3d/e922d/javascript-closure-mental-model.webp
on “A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles”Submitted A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles as a story · 296 points
HN discussionI think a correction needs to be made in Part 2 "How Does State Change"[0]. The author says "Long story short, don’t expect state to be updated right away" in the context of using `searchValue` right after calling `setSearchValue`. This gives the reader the impression that state is sometimes updated right away and sometimes not so we can't depend on it. However, it's impossible for a useState variable (e.g. `searchV…
Comment linking /code/a-visual-guide-to-react-mental-models-part-2-use-state-use-effect-and-lifecycles/
on “A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles”Submitted A Visual Guide to React Mental Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Is to Learn, Not to Teach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Visual Guide to React Mental Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Visual Guide to React Mental Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
