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Discussion on: Avoiding Race Conditions when Fetching Data with React Hooks

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Jules Sam. Randolph

Race conditions can occur especially in logic circuits, multithreaded, or distributed software programs.

Moreover, the expression was coined by David A. Huffman in the area of logic circuits, so it would also be historically irrelevant to restrict its meaning to multithreading.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition

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Dmytro Pylypenko

Right! Thanks for the link :)