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crooked-v on March 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Common Beginner Mistakes with React

> Do not use async effects. Use suspense.

I have to wonder how much pain would have been saved if the React team had just shipped a `usePromise` hook years ago.

HeavyFeather on March 12, 2023 [–]

The first thing I noticed looking at React after Svelte was that Svelte had syntax for promises from v1 while dealing with Promises in "the most popular framework on the plane" is still a PITA.

"await blocks" on http://web.archive.org/web/20180103230006/http://svelte.tech...

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