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If you have been using <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/react" target="_blank">React</a>, there is a 100% chance that you know the pattern of initializing a component’s state in it’s constructor. However, there have always been several issues with this pattern and now thanks to <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/react" target="_blank">Definitely Typed — React</a>, we are ‘forced’ to tackle these issues.