React 19's useFormStatus Fixed My Prop Drilling. Then It Sat There Returning False
javascript
dev.to
Part 1 was about waiting well. Part 2 was about not waiting at all. This one is about a value I needed in a component that never created it, and about the ten minutes I lost putting the hook in the one place it can't work. If you've read Part 1 on useActionState and Part 2 on useOptimistic, both of those hooks answer a question from inside the component that called them. That was never a problem for a two-field newsletter form. It became one the day I split an order form into separate pieces, p