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>I can no longer tell the difference between innovation and anarchy

I think this is kind of the thing with innovation. Innovation is anarchy until the point where the innovation is accepted as best practice. And at that point it's not really innovation. It's just best practice.

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Yeah, but we shouldn't need 15, no, 17, no, 27... different ways to "update the UI when the data changes after an API call". Just one good one -- not necessarily the best, just good enough.

Something a bit more advanced than fetch, not quite as complex as useContext. To the end user, websites haven't really changed all that much since the early AJAX days. Input gets received, ajax happens, shit gets updated. Why has the tooling gotten 1000x more complex?

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