I'm clearly missing something with hooks. The main selling point seems to be that your code is more "functional" because you are typing the 'function' keyword more often, but the new functions you can write are not pure functions. They are "react functions" and have all kinds of global baggage, just like component classes.
Having more impure functions doesn't do anything for me aesthetically, it might as well be a class. At least classes force you to declare (in typescript) the type of your state, with hooks it's all hidden inside. That seems less functional rather than more.
Having more impure functions doesn't do anything for me aesthetically, it might as well be a class. At least classes force you to declare (in typescript) the type of your state, with hooks it's all hidden inside. That seems less functional rather than more.