--- title: Best JavaScript in Plain English posts — March 2022 description: The most upvoted JavaScript in Plain English posts from March 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of/2022/03 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of/2022/03 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best JavaScript in Plain English posts — March 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted JavaScript in Plain English posts from March 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of JavaScript in Plain English — March 2022 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc "Clean Up Your React Code") Article JavaScript in Plain English · 4y Clean Up Your React Code React has a declarative programming approach. With prop types, we can make our components (both class and function components) well-defined. By following the composition paradigm we have clean, small, testable components. We can compose these components together and create maintainable, readable, and complex applications. 113 6 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj "Why you shouldn’t always use “useState”") Article JavaScript in Plain English · 4y Why you shouldn’t always use “useState” UseRef has the same power of persistence that useState has. It sustains the value through the component’s life-cycle, but the cool part is that it is synchronous. When I need to do something immediately and I need it for the flow of my code, then I aim for useRef. 110 2 [See all JavaScript in Plain English archives](/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of/2022/03#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of/2022/03","name":"Best JavaScript in Plain English Posts — March 2022","description":"The most upvoted JavaScript in Plain English posts from March 2022, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of/2022/03#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc","name":"Clean Up Your React Code"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-shouldn-t-always-use-usestate--daci3z6mj","name":"Why you shouldn’t always use “useState”"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"JavaScript in Plain English","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"March 2022"}]}]} ```