
What Is Functional Programming and What It's Not With Lane Wagner- JSJ 557
JavaScript Jabber
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The Disadvantages of View and View Three
React hooks and view composition API are functions, right? The keyword is function. And so if that's the definition of functional that we're using, then yes, they definitely are more functional, right? I think the problem arises when people coming from like a, which programming paradigm are we talking about? That's where it gets a little more confusing. But at the end of the day, that's all you're doing is you're just composing a set of hooks based on what's going on in the app. It doesn't have to do everything. And it's not encapsulated in classes, which people don't reason well about in JavaScript anyway.
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