react Memes

The React hooks hierarchy of social acceptance visualized. Poor use is literally at the party wearing a dunce cap while everyone ignores them. Meanwhile useState is getting all the attention like the popular kid, and useEffect is down there making out with someone because developers just can't resist reaching for it. The irony? The use hook (introduced in React 19) is actually pretty powerful for handling promises and context, but it's the awkward newcomer that nobody invited. Meanwhile useEffect is getting way more action than it deserves—half the time you're using it, you probably shouldn't be. But here we are, slapping useEffect on everything like it's the solution to all our problems. Classic case of sticking with what you know versus learning the new kid's tricks.

OMG, BEHOLD THE REACT PROVIDER PYRAMID OF DOOM! 😱 What started as a "simple component" has morphed into this MONSTROSITY of nested providers that would make Russian dolls jealous! The absolute AUDACITY of React developers to say "just one more provider" when their render function already looks like the tech equivalent of a family reunion where NOBODY KNOWS WHEN TO LEAVE. At this point, the closing tags are in a different ZIP code from where they started. This isn't code—it's a cry for help wrapped in angle brackets!

Sometimes I wonder if returning to monke would be easier than debugging that React component for the 17th time. The sweet bliss of ignorance—no JavaScript frameworks, no variable scope issues, just vibing with the squad and hunting for ants. The ultimate escape from dependency hell. Maybe those chimps are onto something...

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute state of React developers in 2023! 💀 We're out here DELIBERATELY turning off optimizations with useMemo like some kind of performance-hating MONSTERS! The sheer AUDACITY of that little stick figure just smiling and nodding while React's optimization features are being MURDERED right in front of him! This is the equivalent of watching someone pour sugar in your gas tank and responding with "yea" instead of calling the police! The cognitive dissonance is just *chef's kiss* SPECTACULAR! React's over here trying its best with all those fancy hooks, and we're just like "no thanks, I PREFER my app to run like it's on a 1998 calculator watch!" 🙃

The eternal struggle between React hooks! Top panel shows the primitive useState hook - basic, straightforward, but kinda boring (hence the darkness). Bottom panel? That's when you discover useEffect and suddenly your face is illuminated with the divine light of side effects! Finally, a way to increment that counter without manually calling setCount everywhere. The transformation is basically the coding equivalent of discovering fire. Just wait until this dev discovers the reducer pattern and their head literally explodes.

The unholy trinity of React hooks, presented as the Three Musketeers of suffering. useState is clearly the flamboyant leader with the biggest hat—appropriate since it's carrying the weight of your entire application's data. useEffect is that friend who promises to help but creates more problems than it solves, triggering rerenders when you least expect. And useRef? The quiet one silently breaking React's rules by mutating values behind everyone's back. Together they form the perfect storm of "why is my component rendering 47 times?" and "who changed this value when I wasn't looking?" The real joke is that we voluntarily choose this chaos over class components, then spend hours debugging infinite loops while muttering "but the docs said it was simpler this way."