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Dan Abramov talks about WET (write everything twice) [1] as generally a good approach, primarily because you often don’t know the right abstraction up front, and a wrong abstraction is way worse than a copy/paste.

He has some good visuals that illustrate how incorrectly dependent and impossible to unwind wrong abstractions can become.

[1] https://youtu.be/17KCHwOwgms

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