🚀 React Series - Day 5 useEffect - Making React Work with the Outside World Not everything in an app is just UI rendering. Sometimes you need to: • Fetch data from APIs • Run logic after rendering • Set up timers or listeners This is where useEffect is used. It runs after a component renders and allows you to handle these “side effects” cleanly. With the dependency array, you can control when it runs: • Empty array → runs once • With values → runs when those values change 👉 It’s a key concept for handling real-world app behavior in React. #reactjs #javascript #frontenddeveloper #webdevelopment #codinginterview #learnreact #30daysofcode #programming #reactinterview #react #coding
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Your React app is doing way more work than you think. 🔁 Every time your component re-renders, JavaScript recreates every function and recalculates every value inside it — even if nothing changed. useCallback and useMemo exist to stop that waste. But most developers use them wrong — or not at all. Let's fix that. 👇 #ReactJS #ReactHooks #useCallback #useMemo #ReactPerformance #JavaScript #Frontend #FrontendDevelopment #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #100DaysOfCode #DevCommunity #LearningInPublic #SoftwareDevelopment
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Just published a new blog post on Managing Component State with React It shows you how to use the useState Hook to handle state in functional components and make UIs that change and respond to user input. I've also added simple code examples to help you understand how state works in real-world React apps. If you're learning React, this is a must-know concept! 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gcCEDNah #ReactJS #JavaScript #WebDevelopment #Frontend #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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If your React app still re-renders… this is why useMemo → caches values, not renders Use when computation is expensive Not for “just in case” optimization useCallback → stabilizes function reference Useful only when passing to memoized children Not for wrapping everything React.memo → skips render if props are same (by reference) Works only if props are stable Breaks if you create new objects/functions every render The truth 👇 They don’t improve performance on their own They only work if you control identity New object = re-render New function = re-render React doesn’t care if values look same Only if they are the same reference If you don’t control identity You don’t control rendering #reactjs #frontend #javascript #webdevelopment #reactperformance #softwareengineering #coding #devtips
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