The Weird Things About React

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Covers several lesser-known React behaviors (like using the key attribute to force remounts) and how React’s composition patterns evolved (mixins → HOCs → hooks). Discusses recent ecosystem changes around React 18 (TypeScript typing fixes and optional children problems), effects of Strict Mode (including double rendering in React 18), the role of warnings and a library called React Reduce Stress to suppress them, and how beta docs/RFCs give insight and a route to propose changes.

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