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by istoica 2474 days ago
How are your functions pure if inside them you call `useEffect`, `useState` ? Where is pureness when at first look they generate side effects, or am I missing something ?
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Not all functions needs hooks, not all hooks break pureness.

But my point was functions are simpler in all those scenarios, pure or not. Edited my comment to reflect that.

> not all hooks break pureness

Sure, if you define a function called useWhatever that doesn't actually call any hooks, that might be a pure function. But the restrictions described in https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html are not restrictions that pure functions have.