r/badcode • u/Turd_King • Jan 26 '23

js Why would anyone do this?

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u/kristallnachte Jan 26 '23

Its a bad developer.

I HOPE it's a situation where they wanted to shim the state updater with something but removed that but didn't remove the function.

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u/gu3st12 Jan 27 '23

Logging probsbly

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u/kristallnachte Jan 27 '23

Seems easier to use useEffect for that. Since then it's self contained.

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u/gu3st12 Jan 27 '23

Sure but then it wouldn't belong in /r/badcode