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On the Web on joe blubaugh · Dec 4, 2024

What's a "thunk"?

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I remember when everyone started talking about using “thunks” in Redux to execute code without blocking the UI. And I remember getting tripped up on the word “thunk”. What’s a “thunk”? Why are we calling it that? The term “thunk” goes all the way back to ALGOL 60 ! It’s a play on “think”, because the ALGOL compiler needed to…

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