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Gitartha Kashyap

On the journey to become a Self taught MERN stack developer

Feb 9, 2022

A Simple UseEffect trick

One of the important things that we learn about useEffect is that we need to pass on dependency to the useEffect to make it run conditionally. But the useEffect runs on every hard refresh even after having a dependency. Let us understand this through...

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Faheem Khan

Web Developer, content creator.

Feb 9, 2022

Thank you for your effort but I didn't get what problem this article trying to address.

If you want to run certain function only when user clicks then put that function inside the click event handler.
You want to achieve that useEffect should not run after first render but even after your workaround it still runs, just your if condition is passing hence else block is not executing in first render.

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