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Forget about component lifecycles and start thinking in effects

sebastiandedeyne.com

In a new blogpost, my colleague Seb explains why you should and how you can use useEffect.

React recently introduced a new way to deal with side effects: the useEffect hook. Translating lifecycle methods to useEffect calls can be confusing at first. It’s confusing because we shouldn’t be translating imperative lifecycle methods to declarative useEffect calls in the first place.

Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]