Ask HN: Can the React 19 hooks be found in the wild?
4 zwilderrr 3 6/6/2025, 6:43:39 PM
Wondering if anyone is actually using useActionState, useTransition, useOptimistic, etc, in the wild, or if they are still relying on form libraries and data fetching frameworks. If yes, please indicate what (size) company you work for.
It's not so clear to me if useTransition, useOptimistic are part of the problem or part of the solution. (e.g. "looking responsive" could be the enemy of "being responsive", right now I am fixing a ticket about an incorrect state that flashes for < 0.5 sec that drives some people crazy, if I wanted something different in my framework it would be "update the UI state once, it renders once and doesn't keep calling effects and setters for an indefinite time")
Funny I am advocating for a React 19 update because at least React 19 can tell the test framework when it is done running callbacks, it might have me writing tests for components again.
[1] ... and if I want to SSR I might just ditch React and build the kind of apps that I built in 1999 with maybe a little help from HTMX
edit: it's also a great source of laughs if you enjoy AI hallucinations. eg. ask it to generate a use action state solution which updates a select element.