why state machines make better code than loose booleans
how juggling multiple boolean flags creates hidden UI bugs, and how explicit status states keep your codebase clean and bulletproof.
- published
- nov 2025
- reading time
- 8 min
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isLoading, isError, isEmpty, isStale... as features grow, loose boolean flags multiply into impossible state combinations.
switching to explicit status states makes invalid UI states impossible to represent in code.
you don't need heavy third-party libraries for this — simple TypeScript union types and reducers keep your component state predictable.