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React’s `useEffect`: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Modern JavaScript Insights

Harish Kumar on January 13, 2025

React’s useEffect hook is a cornerstone of functional component development, enabling developers to handle side effects like data fetching, DOM man...
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keyru Nasir Usman

Isn't it better to use a library like tanstack/react-query rather than plain useEffect to make developer's life easier?

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David Daniel

More dependence, yay JavaScript.

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Elvis Sautet

interesting, have you tried using Remix.js, will reduce client code by 70%

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Erick B. Gómez

Very useful tips! I've been struggling this hook in my projects, specially for fetching data or syncing with another component states. Thank you for sharing these tips 🙌