🥊 React vs Backbone in 2025

｢ The Backbone code is brutally honest about what it's doing. An event fires, a handler runs, you build some HTML, you put it in the DOM. It's verbose, sure, but there's no mystery. A junior developer can trace exactly what happens and when. The mental model is straightforward: "when this happens, do this."

The React code hides a lot ｣

https://backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com/

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🌩️ A deep dive into Cloudflare’s September 12, 2025 dashboard and API outage

｢ The API calls were managed by a React useEffect hook, but we mistakenly included a problematic object in its dependency array. Because this object was recreated on every state or prop change, React treated it as “always new,” causing the useEffect to re-run each time. As a result, the API call executed many times during a single dashboard render instead of just once ｣

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/

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