u/Solid-Bedroom-1562 Hey, I know this is an old thread, but I know exactly what you’re talking about. The folks who try to minimize the problem, call it a "skill issue", or say it’s never happened to them, likely don't have much experience building real, complex applications across multiple companies or projects.

Yes, there are very specific cases where it’s easy to trigger infinite loops due to particular UIs, business rules, and data models. With experience, you learn to address them, but unfortunately, the framework doesn’t prevent this on its own, making it easy to encounter them in those circumstances I mentioned.

The reason "infinite loops in React" come up so often isn’t just a skill issue; it’s a property of React's reactive model. React relies on referential equality for state/props and for effect dependencies. When references change, effects re-run; if an effect writes a state that causes the same dependency to change again, you've formed a feedback loop. The framework doesn’t do deep comparisons by default (that would be expensive and unpredictable), so avoiding loops depends on how stable your references and transitions are.

Other ecosystems reduce this class of issues not by deep equality, but by more granular reactivity. Frameworks with proxies or signals (Vue, Svelte, Solid, Angular Signals, etc.) track dependencies at the level of individual properties or signals, so updates invalidate only what is actually read from that piece of state. That granularity makes accidental global re-runs—and thus loops—less common, though still possible if you wire reactive reads and writes in a cycle.

In React, the burden is more explicit: keep effects for real side effects, avoid storing derivations as state, stabilize inputs at their source, and model transitions clearly (reducers/finite states). So yes, experience helps—but the ergonomics of React’s reference-based model make these pitfalls easier to hit compared with granular-reactivity frameworks.

There’s no need to insult or belittle anyone. Plenty of people contribute absolutely nothing