React-tRace: A Semantics for Understanding React Hooks: An Operational Semantics and a Visualizer for Clarifying React Hooks

React has become the most widely used web front-end framework, enabling the creation of user interfaces in a declarative and compositional manner. Hooks are a set of APIs that manage side effects in function components in React. However, their semantics are often seen as opaque to developers, leadin...

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Vydáno v:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Ročník 9; číslo OOPSLA2; s. 471 - 498
Hlavní autoři:	Lee, Jay, Ahn, Joongwon, Yi, Kwangkeun
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	New York, NY, USA ACM 09.10.2025
Témata:	Formal language definitions Functional languages Graphical user interface languages Human-centered computing Interpreters Operational semantics Software and its engineering Theory of computation Visualization systems and tools Hooks Functional reactive programming Render semantics React
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
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Shrnutí:	React has become the most widely used web front-end framework, enabling the creation of user interfaces in a declarative and compositional manner. Hooks are a set of APIs that manage side effects in function components in React. However, their semantics are often seen as opaque to developers, leading to UI bugs. We introduce React-tRace, a formalization of the semantics of the essence of React Hooks, providing a semantics that clarifies their behavior. We demonstrate that our model captures the behavior of React, by theoretically showing that it embodies essential properties of Hooks and empirically comparing our React-tRace-definitional interpreter against a test suite. Furthermore, we showcase a practical visualization tool based on the formalization to demonstrate how developers can better understand the semantics of Hooks.
ISSN:	2475-1421 2475-1421
DOI:	10.1145/3763067