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> He is the founder of Formik and co-host of The Undefined Podcast.

You can disagree with him fine, but I'm quite sure the founder of Formula knows what he's talking about when it comes to React.

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Fwiw, we have a stable admin client that uses Formik. One month, I went to update dependencies. Since the admin client was stable, I only updated its deps for minor versions. Four weeks or so later I get a bug report for that client. Nothing obvious or non-obvious jumped out at me in the component of concern and its blame. After git bisecting, it turns out the minor version bump to Formik had a breaking change.

I've only touched that package a few times since but it never fails to make me wish the original lead hadn't used Formik. I dunno, forms in react have never given me tears, but contrary to Formik's slogan it has been painful, even aside from this versioning fiasco, so I'm not sure this endorsement is as strong as you think it may be.

I'm not endorsing Formik in any way, but I don't think making an accidental breaking change in a minor version is exactly a cardinal sin.

What I'm saying is silly is to say the author is somehow "uninformed" when it comes to React like he's some sort of newbie, as opposed to the guy who wrote the library that a sizable percentage of React apps use for their form components.

Formik started as a class-based library and most likely still uses some under the hood. Maybe he's just not a fan of the hook API and prefers the other way?

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