BEWARE of React.useEffect Race Condition 🐛 BUGS

By DEV - 2020-12-22

Description

It is pretty common for React's useEffect to introduce Race Condition Bugs. This can happen any t...

Summary

Canceling the Previous Request The AbortController isn't always an option for us since some asynchronous code doesn't work with an AbortController.
This is possible by setting a cancelled flag inside of useEffect.
Instead, you should wrap that functionality inside a React Hook.

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