alt Hacker NewsIts entire state management is not reactive, it’s always on push, not pull. You always need to call setState to get render changes.
Its entire state management is not reactive, it’s always on push, not pull. You always need to call setState to get render changes.
But why is push vs pull the definition of reactivity?
I suppose we can say that there are different kinds of reactivity. Signals is one kind. Observables à la rxjs is a different kind (the whole model of programming with rxjs was referred to as "functional reactive programming"). Observables are push-based. Signals, as I heard, are a more complex primitive, which, under the hood, is push-pull.
React's reactivity model may be crap; but this doesn't make it non-existent.