Simon Willison’s Weblog

Making Sense of React Hooks (via) Dan Abramov provides the most comprehensive justification I’ve seen so far for the new React hooks API.

Posted 31st October 2018 at 4:26 am

Recent articles

Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now - 8th October 2025
Vibe engineering - 7th October 2025
OpenAI DevDay 2025 live blog - 6th October 2025

react 39 dan-abramov 6

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe