The Friction Wall

Real developer friction, intercepted live.

Every card below is a real, public distress signal Patchwire pulled from an open-source repository and scored — before a support ticket was ever filed.

3,374.4h
Dev-hours lost
estimated
49
Signals intercepted
1
Repos watched
4
Friction categories

friction.feed · top 49 by score

Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Hooks + multiple instances of React
facebook/react#13991 405hf1164.5
Breaking API Regressioncritical
RFC: Plan for custom element attributes/properties in React 19
facebook/react#11347 298.9hf949
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[Umbrella] Releasing Suspense
facebook/react#13206 228.6hf815.5
ESM / Module Resolutioncritical
Formalize top-level ES exports
facebook/react#11503 155.6hf513
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
createPortal: support option to stop propagation of events in React tree
facebook/react#11387 134.9hf431.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Support Passive Event Listeners
facebook/react#6436 110.2hf393
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Support asynchronous server rendering (waiting for data before rendering)
facebook/react#1739 122.5hf365.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Provide a way to handle browser-autocompleted form values on controlled components
facebook/react#1159 93.5hf303
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[eslint-plugin-react-hooks] allow configuring custom hooks as "static"
facebook/react#16873 88.7hf298
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
"Should not already be working" in Firefox after a breakpoint/alert
facebook/react#17355 100.3hf291.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[React 19] allow opting out of automatic form reset when Form Actions are used
facebook/react#29034 89.9hf276
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Bug: Hydration mismatch error due to plugins generating script tag on top
facebook/react#24430 81.6hf252.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
<video /> attribute needed but not guaranteed by React
facebook/react#10389 79.2hf242
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Bypass synthetic event system for Web Component events
facebook/react#7901 64.2hf207
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
useReducer's dispatch should return a promise which resolves once its action has been delivered
facebook/react#15344 62.1hf206
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[React 19] Suspense throttling behavior (`FALLBACK_THROTTLE_MS`) kicks in too often
facebook/react#31819 57hf202
Breaking API Regressioncritical
value|defaultValue={Symbol|Function} should be ignored, not stringified
facebook/react#11734 65.2hf177.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Use the native `beforeinput` event if it's supported
facebook/react#11211 49.1hf169.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Feature request: Add a "module" entry in package.json to export ES2015 version of React
facebook/react#10021 47.3hf165
Build / Config Failurecritical
Warning for 'exhaustive-deps' keeps asking for the full 'props' object instead of allowing single 'props' properties as dependencies
facebook/react#16265 52.2hf161.5
Breaking API Regressioncritical
Dancing between state and effects - a real-world use case
facebook/react#15240 43.6hf157.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Declarative API for installing global DOM event handlers
facebook/react#285 50.1hf153.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Support for reparenting
facebook/react#3965 44.8hf151
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[Concurrent] Safely disposing uncommitted objects
facebook/react#15317 51.2hf143.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Attributes and properties for Custom Components
facebook/react#7249 43.3hf138
Breaking API Regressioncritical
The fake event trick for rethrowing errors in DEV fires unexpected global error handlers and makes testing harder
facebook/react#10474 42.6hf137.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Can an error boundary prevent React's error logging?
facebook/react#15069 41.2hf137
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Change event fires extra times before IME composition ends
facebook/react#3926 43.9hf133
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
React-test-renderer: support for portal
facebook/react#11565 41.1hf128.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
[React 19] Controlled `<select>` component is subject to automatic form reset
facebook/react#30580 37.1hf119.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
head > meta > content escaping issue
facebook/react#13838 36.1hf115.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Stop doing data-*, aria-*, start using dataSet
facebook/react#1259 34hf114.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Bug: `react-hooks/set-state-in-effect` overly strict?
facebook/react#34743 34.7hf113.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Add support for hydrating portals
facebook/react#13097 33.1hf108
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
useMemo / useCallback cache busting opt out
facebook/react#15278 33.3hf107
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
"NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node'" when using React.Fragment <></> with Chrome extension which does not modify the DOM tree below the root div of the React app
facebook/react#17256 31.9hf102.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Cross-origin error passed to componentDidCatch incorrectly
facebook/react#10441 36.6hf101.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Events before Client Side Hydration
facebook/react#15446 30.8hf101.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
False positive getDefaultProps warning when mixing development and production versions
facebook/react#9999 31.7hf97
Breaking API Regressioncritical
[DevTools Bug]: Electron support broken in 4.27
facebook/react#25843 26.6hf87.5
Breaking API Regressioncritical
Allow Portals to be used for Reparenting
facebook/react#13044 25.6hf83.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Suppress "Download the React DevTools" log for a better development experience
facebook/react#24283 26.8hf83.5
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Bug: React 19 cannot run apps in both dev & production mode simultaneously
facebook/react#32030 25.6hf82.5
ESM / Module Resolutioncritical
[DevTools Bug]: Error in event handler: Error: Attempting to use a disconnected port object
facebook/react#24417 26.3hf82
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Externalize the State Tree (or alternatives)
facebook/react#4595 26.2hf77
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Add `get` function to `useState`
facebook/react#14543 24.1hf74
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Proposition about onInput/onChange
facebook/react#19150 24hf72.5
Build / Config Failurecritical
[Compiler Bug]: Coverage report shows missing branch coverage
facebook/react#32950 20.8hf69
Uncategorized Frictioncritical
Batching makes it difficult to perform imperative actions like focus
facebook/react#18402 21.3hf65.5

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