I have come to prefer hooks, but I have never felt they're necessary. Class based React allowed for massive simplification of some setup/tear-down actions.
This is very neat. One question, would you consider making a version of your service that works like discourse.org? I don’t mean changing the discussion software to match theirs, I mean allowing clients to embed your software in their page. Also, for what it’s worth, if you had plug-in authentication of users you might find some clients in in web3.
It makes sense. It’s ridiculous to have to subscribe to individual news websites when there are so many; an intermediary that did deals with publishers wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Yes, definitely. Have had terrible burnouts in the past, to the point of not being able to code at all. Recovery is long, and these days I will burn out more quickly if I’m in a stressful situation, but I’ve also made changes so that I am not coding under the wrong conditions and it’s made all the difference.