alt Hacker NewsYour first thought might be to use React, but in prior eras we wrote a function updateFieldVisibility() and that worked fine. Straightforward code can be faster than using a state management framework to determine exactly which fields' visibility changed.
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not-a-llm • today at 8:51 AM
it can be faster, but is it correct?
React was invented because jQuery style state management collapsed into unmanageable code past a certain size
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But it's harder to have component composition. Consider also lists and adding/removing items and so on, juggling all of it gets insanely complex and requires MVC or MVVM patterns like with backbone.js