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		recursive on June 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UnsuckJS: Progressively enhance HTML with lightwei... What's a mutation bug? In react, mutating a model is a bug. It's left up to the developer to remember not to do that. Outside of react, mutating a model seems like a natural fit for the way stuff actually works and it's not considered a bug.

nathias on June 17, 2023 [–]

I mean a bug where some variable gets mutated implicitly, as a side effect of some other code change.

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