• Jayjader@jlai.lu
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      As someone who started using react about 6 months before they introduced hooks, I remember there was a period where people were really complaining about having to manually reason about what went into every single hook dependency list. Eventually the linting rule was published. I distinctly remember appreciating the rule in situations where a variable that used to be a “plain” variable became a useState hook - it caught some existing uses of the variable in hooks that otherwise were unrelated to the code being changed.

      I also distinctly remember being disappointed that there was no specific way to annotate code that needed to disable that rule to prevent infinite loops, just a generic // @eslint-ignore… I guess they still haven’t shipped a better way?

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        I guess they still haven’t shipped a better way?

        /* eslint-disable-next-line specific-rule-name */

        Only for multiline comment delimiters

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          I guess that’s a tad better, though if the rule is named react-hooks/exhaustive-deps then we’re still not explaining why we’re disabling it.

          What I’m really looking for is something that explicitly tells the programmer/code reader “this blows up into an infinite loop if we respect exhaustive deps, but here we don’t need exhaustive deps for the code to be sound”.

          My own, hair-baked proposal: have the linter recognize [foo, baz /*, @causes-infinite-loop bar */] (or something along those lines) as an explicit, programmer-validated escape hatch for not respecting the exhaustive-deps rule.