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		ukuina on May 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Htmx Is the Future How does something "fall out of favor" in React? Is it deprecated?

willio58 on May 8, 2023 [–]

The recommendation for React projects for the past few years has been to write everything using functional components vs the old class-based components. In function-based components, you can only use hooks so useState is that's why the parent comment is referring to.

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