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SIGNALS IN REACT? NOT A GOOD IDEA

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

While Signals in React offer efficiency and direct UI updates, React's component-based, coarse-grained reactivity model makes it difficult to implement them effectively. There are practical problems like handling data rawness, conditionals, and loops, as well as conceptual issues with React's fundamental re-rendering approach.