You might not need to use the useEffect hook in React

👉 Here is one small piece of valuable advice for fellow developers working with React js

We must avoid using the useEffect hook in React js components unless a strong use case or a situation arises that requires this usage. The main reason, useEffect, if not used properly, would to bugs and performance issues if the component rerenders multiple times which are not easy to debug and similarly resolve.

As a developer, we should ask ourselves a question before deciding whether useEffect is necessary to implement our logic, or if it is the best possible way. If there is another possible way, we should have to avoid using it.

As React developers face this dilemma quite often so React JS team has added specific guidelines and highlights on this issue, with scenarios we do not need to useEffect hook at all. For more insights on this topic, refer to the React documentation link you-might-not-need-an-effect