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React Server Components Explained Without the Hype
React Server Components are one of the most significant shifts in React's model since hooks — and one of the most poorly explained. This is the mental model that actually makes them click, without the marketing language.
Alex Chen

·4 min read
Why I Stopped Using useEffect for Data Fetching (And What I Use Instead)
useEffect data fetching is the pattern every React tutorial teaches and almost no production codebase should use. Here's what the race conditions, missing cache, and waterfall requests look like in practice — and the tools that solve them properly
Alex Chen