Why Signals Are Better Than React Hooks

Surprised that people are surprised by reactivity-based stores/variables that behave in a way very similar to mobx/VueEx after them existing for so long


Although signals being able to figure out inside which components they're being called/used to trigger their re-renders instead of me having to wrap everything in observer HOC is pretty nice feat!

Kyle? who's Sally? are u cheating on me? 😿

Watching this as someone who used vue before react. I was just reading ref and reactive every time he mentioned signal. If you know you know.

It just looked to me like another global state management tool. We can achieve the same thing with the redux and other global state management tools, However it might be helpful for smaller applications where you don't want to setup the redux. basically just better than the useState hook ?
I would love if someone can correct me or add something to what I just said above.

that's really cool - it makes Redux history... where the hell did the good ol' boiler plate stuff go? haha. Cool. I would love to know if there's any downside at all using signal into large applications + It would be great to see how this fits in a NextJS project too.

Still not as clean as Vue.

Just use Vue, Swelte, and others. React is dinosaur, and trash, breaking basic design principals.

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i mean you could just store the completed count in redux but okay

Please make full course on React Signals.

isnt this just a context with proper subscriptions ?

Seems similar to how Jotai atom works.

Correction, React doesn't re-rendres components with no HTML change, but rather parses it. Big difference and it's what it is designed to do.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am waiting for full course

Great job Kayle

I think this's just another approach.
We can use different syntaxes (or libraries) but looks like the data flow and rendering logic did not change much.
In my opinion, reactive things sometimes can be quite magic, especially in large codebase it will be hard to debug.
Signals and React hooks can still exist equally and choosing which one depends on the personality of developer, like choosing framework for your project.

This is amazing!!!!!! React + signals (easy state management) + improved performance! What else would I want in life? Thank you Kyle!!!!!

Wow, love it! Please make a full tutourial! :D

if we're going to turn react into vue why not just use vue man
Don't get me wrong, I loved this video, but I hate how much praise react gets when there are much better frameworks out there