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Lesson 3 · atom React, the Mental Model
Effects, and Avoiding Them
Recognize when useEffect is wrong before writing it.
Before you start
useEffect synchronizes your component with something outside React: a subscription, a timer, a browser API. It is not for transforming data, not for responding to a click, and increasingly not for fetching. Most effects in the wild shouldn't exist.
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