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A few big problems:

* They're a pain in the ass to maintain once you have more than a few async calls

* They are a poor abstraction because async messages often need to do a lot more than just call/response/error. Sometimes you want stuff like backpressure, throttling, etc. and that's a lot messier to model with a thunk

* There's no real need for a library for thunks in the first case, you can mimic the same functionality with the same amount of code by putting async calls in mapDispatch

If I'm working on a small project then shoving async in mapDispatch can work. Most of the time though the best approach is to handle async through a custom middleware pipeline because let's be real–if your project is simple enough that thunks are fine, you probably don't need to be doing it in React.




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