If the React docs leave you in the dust, or Dan Abramov’s blog makes you feel like you’re reading a scroll handed down from Mt Olympus written in ancient Greek, you’re not alone.…

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This post explains the purpose of useEffect in React, how side effects are handled in class-based components, and how to fix the stale closure problem with useEffect.

React's useEffect and useRef Explained for Mortals

UseEffect and Previous State: Where things fall apart

What is a “ref”, and how do you use one?

<p>Very clear and extremely well detailled article on React hooks. I always get confused by useEffect and useRef, when do we have re-render, when we don’t…</p>
<p>That shows that React is pretty simple at surface but is, in fact, a complex library that makes easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don’t really understand what is going on.</p>
