React useEffect async mistake fixed

🚀 30 Days — 30 Coding Mistakes Beginners Make Day 17/30 I wrote an API call inside `useEffect`… and React showed a warning 😐 useEffect(async () => { const res = await fetch("/api/users") }, []) The mistake: `useEffect` should NOT be async. React expects the effect to return either: nothing, or a cleanup function. But async always returns a Promise. Fix 👇 Create an async function INSIDE the effect and call it. useEffect(() => { async function fetchUsers() { ... } fetchUsers() }, []) Small change. Correct lifecycle behavior. Day 18 tomorrow 👀 #30DaysOfCode #reactjs #javascript #frontend #webdevelopment

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