You're right, in some cases you probably couldn't get away with putting side effects outside of the useEffect. However, using the second argument is still a powerful tool that should be used and doesn't mean you are "incorrectly coding functionality"
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You're right, in some cases you probably couldn't get away with putting side effects outside of the useEffect. However, using the second argument is still a powerful tool that should be used and doesn't mean you are "incorrectly coding functionality"